NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 vs AMD Radeon R5 230

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 and AMD Radeon R5 230 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: 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 2 month(s) later
  • 2.9x more texture fill rate: 14.43 GTexel / s vs 5 GTexel / s
  • 2.4x more pipelines: 384 vs 160
  • 3.5x better floating-point performance: 692.7 gflops vs 200.0 gflops
  • 3.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 834 vs 222
  • 4.4x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 1951 vs 439
  • Around 71% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 1693 vs 992
  • Around 34% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3324 vs 2480
  • 4.4x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 1951 vs 439
  • Around 71% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 1693 vs 992
  • Around 34% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3324 vs 2480
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 18 June 2014 vs 3 April 2014
Texture fill rate 14.43 GTexel / s vs 5 GTexel / s
Pipelines 384 vs 160
Floating-point performance 692.7 gflops vs 200.0 gflops
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 834 vs 222
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 1951 vs 439
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1693 vs 992
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3324 vs 2480
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 1951 vs 439
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1693 vs 992
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3324 vs 2480

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R5 230

  • 2.6x lower typical power consumption: 19 Watt vs 49 Watt
  • 4x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 1 GB
  • Around 3% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 255 vs 248
  • Around 42% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 4127 vs 2916
Specifications (specs)
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 19 Watt vs 49 Watt
Maximum memory size 4 GB vs 1 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 255 vs 248
Geekbench - OpenCL 4127 vs 2916

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 730
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R5 230

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
834
222
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
248
255
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
2916
4127
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1951
439
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1693
992
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3324
2480
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1951
439
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1693
992
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3324
2480
Name NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 AMD Radeon R5 230
PassMark - G3D Mark 834 222
PassMark - G2D Mark 248 255
Geekbench - OpenCL 2916 4127
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 439
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1693 992
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3324 2480
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 1951 439
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1693 992
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3324 2480
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 311

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 AMD Radeon R5 230

Essentials

Architecture Fermi TeraScale 2
Code name GF108 Caicos
Launch date 18 June 2014 3 April 2014
Launch price (MSRP) $59.99
Place in performance rating 1312 1313
Price now $54.99 $50
Type Desktop Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 20.48 6.10
Design AMD Radeon R5 200 Series

Technical info

Core clock speed 700 MHz
Floating-point performance 692.7 gflops 200.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 40 nm
Pipelines 384 160
Texture fill rate 14.43 GTexel / s 5 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 49 Watt 19 Watt
Transistor count 585 million 370 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 145 mm 168 mm
Supplementary power connectors None N / A
Bus support PCIe 1.0 x4

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 11
OpenGL 4.6 4.4

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 4 GB
Memory bandwidth 40.1 GB / s 10.67 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 Bit 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 1600 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 DDR3

Technologies

AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire
DDMA audio
​PowerPlay