AMD Radeon R9 350 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 730

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 350 and NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 350

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 11 month(s) later
  • Around 32% higher core clock speed: 925 MHz vs 700 MHz
  • 2x more pipelines: 768 vs 384
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 1 GB
  • 3.4x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 9926 vs 2902
  • Around 34% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 2609 vs 1951
  • Around 34% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 2609 vs 1951
  • 2.3x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3911 vs 1693
  • 2.3x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3911 vs 1693
  • 2.9x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 9664 vs 3324
  • 2.9x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 9664 vs 3324
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 12 June 2015 vs 18 June 2014
Core clock speed 925 MHz vs 700 MHz
Pipelines 768 vs 384
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size 2 GB vs 1 GB
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 9926 vs 2902
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 2609 vs 1951
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 2609 vs 1951
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3911 vs 1693
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3911 vs 1693
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 9664 vs 3324
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 9664 vs 3324

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 730

  • Around 94% lower typical power consumption: 49 Watt vs 95 Watt
  • Around 42% higher memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 1125 MHz (4500 MHz effective)
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 49 Watt vs 95 Watt
Memory clock speed 1600 MHz vs 1125 MHz (4500 MHz effective)

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 350
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 730

Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
9926
2902
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2609
1951
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2609
1951
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3911
1693
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3911
1693
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
9664
3324
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
9664
3324
Name AMD Radeon R9 350 NVIDIA GeForce GT 730
Geekbench - OpenCL 9926 2902
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 2609 1951
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 2609 1951
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3911 1693
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3911 1693
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 9664 3324
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 9664 3324
PassMark - G3D Mark 830
PassMark - G2D Mark 253
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 10.872
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 166.832
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 0.817
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 12.415
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 36.916
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 327

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon R9 350 NVIDIA GeForce GT 730

Essentials

Architecture Tobago Fermi
Launch date 12 June 2015 18 June 2014
Place in performance rating 585 1311
Type Desktop Desktop
Code name GF108
Launch price (MSRP) $59.99
Price now $54.99
Value for money (0-100) 20.48

Technical info

Core clock speed 925 MHz 700 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 40 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 1421 GFLOPS
Pipelines 768 384
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 95 Watt 49 Watt
Floating-point performance 692.7 gflops
Texture fill rate 14.43 GTexel / s
Transistor count 585 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 2 x DisplayPort, DVI 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDCP
Number of simultaneous displays 4

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 145 mm
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 12 12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.3 4.6

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 72 GB/s 40.1 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 bit 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 1125 MHz (4500 MHz effective) 1600 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5

Technologies

Unified Video Decoder (UVD)