NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 vs AMD Radeon HD 8470D

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 and AMD Radeon HD 8470D 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 730

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 0 month(s) later
  • 3x more pipelines: 384 vs 128
  • 2.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 834 vs 365
  • Around 71% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 248 vs 145
  • 2.7x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 2914 vs 1078
  • 3.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 1951 vs 638
  • Around 6% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3324 vs 3149
  • 3.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 1951 vs 638
  • Around 6% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3324 vs 3149
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 18 June 2014 vs 5 June 2013
Pipelines 384 vs 128
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 834 vs 365
PassMark - G2D Mark 248 vs 145
Geekbench - OpenCL 2914 vs 1078
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 1951 vs 638
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3324 vs 3149
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 1951 vs 638
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3324 vs 3149

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8470D

  • Around 14% higher core clock speed: 800 MHz vs 700 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 32 nm vs 40 nm
  • Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 1704 vs 1693
  • Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 1704 vs 1693
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 800 MHz vs 700 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 32 nm vs 40 nm
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1704 vs 1693
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1704 vs 1693

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 730
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 8470D

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
834
365
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
248
145
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
2914
1078
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1951
638
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1693
1704
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3324
3149
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1951
638
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1693
1704
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3324
3149
Name NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 AMD Radeon HD 8470D
PassMark - G3D Mark 834 365
PassMark - G2D Mark 248 145
Geekbench - OpenCL 2914 1078
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
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 1951 638
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1693 1704
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3324 3149
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 1951 638
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1693 1704
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3324 3149
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 310

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 AMD Radeon HD 8470D

Essentials

Architecture Fermi Terascale 3
Code name GF108 Richland
Launch date 18 June 2014 5 June 2013
Launch price (MSRP) $59.99
Place in performance rating 1312 1315
Price now $54.99
Type Desktop Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 20.48

Technical info

Core clock speed 700 MHz 800 MHz
Floating-point performance 692.7 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 32 nm
Pipelines 384 128
Texture fill rate 14.43 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 49 Watt
Transistor count 585 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 145 mm
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 11
OpenGL 4.6

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 40.1 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 1600 MHz
Memory type GDDR5
Shared memory 1