NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 730

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 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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Price

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$ 284.17
$ 37.16
$ 247.01 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5276 points
2486% significantly better overall score
204 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

126 FPS
122 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
5 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

61 FPS
58 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
3 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

88 FPS
85 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
3 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

48 FPS
45 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
2 FPS

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Gaming Benchmarks

Grand Theft Auto V FPS

Grand Theft Auto V FPS

Very High settings at 1080p

145 FPS
109 FPS significantly higher Grand Theft Auto V FPS
36 FPS

Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

8766 points
2851% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
297 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2317.27 points
5691% significantly higher Blender score
40.01 points
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

99213 points
3516% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
2743 points
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

96416 points
2512% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
3690 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

74845 points
2071% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
3447 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

89510 points
2365% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
3630 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

86221 points
2208% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
3735 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1320 MHz
46% significantly higher core clock speed
902 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1777 MHz
41% slightly higher boost clock speed
1253 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

12 GiB
499% 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

360 GB/s
1150% significantly higher memory bandwidth
28.8 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

170 W
49 W
246% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

85.3 Gigapixels/s
2946% significantly higher pixel rate
2.8 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

199 Gigatexels/s
1676% significantly higher texture rate
11.2 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3584
3633% significantly more shading units
96

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112
599% 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

98th of 586
430th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 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 3060 vs GeForce GT 730 specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3060 graphics card is better than the GeForce GT 730 in our tests.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 3060 has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce RTX 3060 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce RTX 3060 has significantly more memory with 12 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GT 730 has a significantly lower TDP at 49 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3060 at 170 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 3060 over the GeForce GT 730.

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