NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 OEM vs AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 OEM and AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM 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, Geekbench - OpenCL, 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), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 OEM

AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 OEM

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 8 month(s) later
Around 13% higher core clock speed: 993 MHz vs 875 MHz
4.5x more texture fill rate: 31.78 GTexel / s vs 7 GTexel / s
2.4x more pipelines: 384 vs 160
2.7x better floating-point performance: 762.6 gflops vs 280.0 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
2.8x more memory clock speed: 5012 MHz vs 1800 MHz

Launch date	9 April 2015 vs 23 July 2013
Core clock speed	993 MHz vs 875 MHz
Texture fill rate	31.78 GTexel / s vs 7 GTexel / s
Pipelines	384 vs 160
Floating-point performance	762.6 gflops vs 280.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Memory clock speed	5012 MHz vs 1800 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM

Around 83% lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 64 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt vs 64 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 OEM
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 OEM	AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM
PassMark - G3D Mark		263
PassMark - G2D Mark		174
Geekbench - OpenCL		872
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		2.021
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		104.327
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		0.239
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		5.628
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		23.365
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		672
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		1078
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		2093
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		672
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		1078
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		2093

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 OEM	AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler	TeraScale 2
Code name	GK107	Caicos
Launch date	9 April 2015	23 July 2013
Launch price (MSRP)	$89
Place in performance rating	not rated	1541
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	993 MHz	875 MHz
Floating-point performance	762.6 gflops	280.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	384	160
Texture fill rate	31.78 GTexel / s	7 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	64 Watt	35 Watt
Transistor count	1,270 million	370 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI	1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	145 mm	168 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.6	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	80.19 GB / s	14.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	5012 MHz	1800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR3