AMD Radeon R7 240 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 730

Compare AMD Radeon R7 240 2 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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NVIDIA GeForce GT 730

Price

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$ 125.00

$ 37.16

$ 87.84 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

121 points

204 points

68% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

3 FPS

5 FPS

1 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

2 FPS

3 FPS

1 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

2 FPS

3 FPS

1 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

1 FPS

2 FPS

1 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

5326 points

44% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

3690 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

5023 points

45% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

3447 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

5101 points

40% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

3630 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

5023 points

34% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

3735 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

730 MHz

902 MHz

23% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

780 MHz

1253 MHz

60% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

2 GiB

Identical

2 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

Identical

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

72 GB/s

150% significantly higher memory bandwidth

28.8 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

30 W

63% significantly lower TDP

49 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

6.24 Gigapixels/s

122% significantly higher pixel rate

2.8 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

15.6 Gigatexels/s

39% slightly higher texture rate

11.2 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

320

233% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

25% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

485th of 586

431st of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R7 200 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.4

4.6

Radeon R7 240 vs GeForce GT 730 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GT 730 GPU is faster than the Radeon R7 240 in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce GT 730 has a slightly 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 GT 730 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

As stated by the manufacturer, they both have the same amount of memory at 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 Radeon R7 240 has a significantly lower TDP at 30 W when compared to the GeForce GT 730 at 49 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 GT 730 over the Radeon R7 240.