NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 vs AMD Radeon R5 235X OEM

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 and AMD Radeon R5 235X 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA GeForce GT 730

AMD Radeon R5 235X OEM

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 730

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 month(s) later
2.1x more texture fill rate: 14.43 GTexel / s vs 7 GTexel / s
2.4x more pipelines: 384 vs 160
2.5x better floating-point performance: 692.7 gflops vs 280.0 gflops
3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 830 vs 277
Around 25% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 253 vs 202

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	18 June 2014 vs 21 December 2013
Texture fill rate	14.43 GTexel / s vs 7 GTexel / s
Pipelines	384 vs 160
Floating-point performance	692.7 gflops vs 280.0 gflops
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	830 vs 277
PassMark - G2D Mark	253 vs 202

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R5 235X OEM

Around 25% higher core clock speed: 875 MHz vs 700 MHz
2.7x lower typical power consumption: 18 Watt vs 49 Watt
Around 13% higher memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 1600 MHz

Core clock speed	875 MHz vs 700 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	18 Watt vs 49 Watt
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz vs 1600 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 730
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R5 235X OEM

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

830

277

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

253

202

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 730	AMD Radeon R5 235X OEM
PassMark - G3D Mark	830	277
PassMark - G2D Mark	253	202
Geekbench - OpenCL	2902
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
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1693
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3324
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	1951
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1693
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3324
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	327

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GT 730	AMD Radeon R5 235X OEM
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi	TeraScale 2
Code name	GF108	Caicos
Launch date	18 June 2014	21 December 2013
Launch price (MSRP)	$59.99
Place in performance rating	1311	865
Price now	$54.99
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	20.48
Technical info
Core clock speed	700 MHz	875 MHz
Floating-point performance	692.7 gflops	280.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	384	160
Texture fill rate	14.43 GTexel / s	7 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	49 Watt	18 Watt
Transistor count	585 million	370 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA	1x DVI, 1x HDMI
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	145 mm	168 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None	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	40.1 GB / s	14.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz	1800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR3