NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 vs AMD Radeon R9 280X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 730

AMD Radeon R9 280X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 730 and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 's Advantages

Released 8 months late

Lower TDP (49W vs 250W)

AMD Radeon R9 280X 's Advantages

Boost Clock1000MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

1952 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 730

0.269 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X +1422%

4.096 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GT 730

331

Radeon R9 280X +609%

2348

GeForce GT 730

VS

Radeon R9 280X

Graphics Card

Jun 2014

Release Date

Oct 2013

GeForce 700

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

850 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

3GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

2

SM Count

-

96

Shading Units

2048

16

TMUs

128

4

ROPs

32

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

11.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

-

268.8 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

22.40 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1024 GFLOPS

Board Design

49W

TDP

250W

200 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GF108

GPU Name

Tahiti

GF108-400-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

Fermi

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.585 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

116 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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