NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 vs AMD Radeon R9 290

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 730 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 's Advantages

Released 7 months late

Lower TDP (49W vs 275W)

AMD Radeon R9 290 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

2464 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 730

0.269 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290 +1702%

4.849 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GT 730

312

Radeon R9 290 +1079%

3681

GeForce GT 730

VS

Radeon R9 290

Graphics Card

Jun 2014

Release Date

Nov 2013

GeForce 700

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

512bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

2

SM Count

-

Compute Units

40

96

Shading Units

2560

16

TMUs

160

4

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

2.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

60.61 GPixel/s

11.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

151.5 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

268.8 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.849 TFLOPS

22.40 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

606.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GF108

GPU Name

Hawaii

GF108-400-A1

GPU Variant

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

Fermi

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.585 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

116 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Board Design

49W

TDP

275W

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 Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.3

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