AMD Radeon E9173 PCIe vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 730A

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon E9173 PCIe and NVIDIA GeForce GT 730A videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon E9173 PCIe

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 3 month(s) later
  • Around 56% higher core clock speed: 1124 MHz vs 719 MHz
  • 2.7x more texture fill rate: 39.01 GTexel / s vs 14.38 GTexel / s
  • Around 33% higher pipelines: 512 vs 384
  • 2.3x better floating-point performance: 1,248 gflops vs 552.2 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
  • 3.3x more memory clock speed: 6000 MHz vs 1800 MHz
Launch date 3 October 2017 vs 1 July 2014
Core clock speed 1124 MHz vs 719 MHz
Texture fill rate 39.01 GTexel / s vs 14.38 GTexel / s
Pipelines 512 vs 384
Floating-point performance 1,248 gflops vs 552.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 28 nm
Memory clock speed 6000 MHz vs 1800 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 730A

  • Around 6% lower typical power consumption: 33 Watt vs 35 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 33 Watt vs 35 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon E9173 PCIe
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 730A

Name AMD Radeon E9173 PCIe NVIDIA GeForce GT 730A
PassMark - G3D Mark 743
PassMark - G2D Mark 714
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1436
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1436
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1711
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1711

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon E9173 PCIe NVIDIA GeForce GT 730A

Essentials

Architecture GCN 4.0 Kepler 2.0
Code name Lexa GK208
Launch date 3 October 2017 1 July 2014
Place in performance rating not rated 541
Type Desktop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1219 MHz
Core clock speed 1124 MHz 719 MHz
Floating-point performance 1,248 gflops 552.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 512 384
Texture fill rate 39.01 GTexel / s 14.38 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 35 Watt 33 Watt
Transistor count 2,200 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DisplayPort, 2x mini-DisplayPort No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x8 PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_0) 12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.5 4.6

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 2 GB
Memory bandwidth 48 GB / s 28.8 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 6000 MHz 1800 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 DDR3