NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 730

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 2 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3514 points
1622% significantly better overall score
204 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

75 FPS
70 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
5 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

52 FPS
49 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
3 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

56 FPS
53 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
3 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

37 FPS
34 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
2 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

5621 points
1792% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
297 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1382.74 points
3356% significantly higher Blender score
40.01 points
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

67657 points
2366% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
2743 points
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

61701 points
1572% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
3690 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

51683 points
1399% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
3447 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

64897 points
1687% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
3630 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

59548 points
1494% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
3735 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

975 MHz
8% slightly higher core clock speed
902 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1185 MHz
1253 MHz
5% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB
200% significantly more memory
2 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit
49% significantly larger memory bus width
128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

264 GB/s
816% significantly higher memory bandwidth
28.8 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

65 W
49 W
32% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

56.88 Gigapixels/s
1931% significantly higher pixel rate
2.8 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

142.2 Gigatexels/s
1169% significantly higher texture rate
11.2 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1920
1900% significantly more shading units
96

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120
650% significantly more texture mapping units
16

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

48
1100% significantly more render output processors
4

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

138th of 586
432nd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 January
2015 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q vs GeForce GT 730 comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q beats the GeForce GT 730 in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. Despite this, the GeForce GT 730 has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q has significantly more memory with 6 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the GeForce GT 730 has a slightly lower TDP at 49 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q at 65 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q over the GeForce GT 730.

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