NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 vs AMD Radeon R7 240 OEM

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 and AMD Radeon R7 240 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 R7 240 OEM

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 730

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 month(s) later
Around 20% higher pipelines: 384 vs 320
Around 39% better floating-point performance: 692.7 gflops vs 499.2 gflops
Around 2% lower typical power consumption: 49 Watt vs 50 Watt

Launch date	18 June 2014 vs 1 November 2013
Pipelines	384 vs 320
Floating-point performance	692.7 gflops vs 499.2 gflops
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	49 Watt vs 50 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R7 240 OEM

Around 4% higher core clock speed: 730 MHz vs 700 MHz
Around 8% higher texture fill rate: 15.6 GTexel / s vs 14.43 GTexel / s
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
Around 13% higher memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 1600 MHz

Core clock speed	730 MHz vs 700 MHz
Texture fill rate	15.6 GTexel / s vs 14.43 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz vs 1600 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 730
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R7 240 OEM

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 730	AMD Radeon R7 240 OEM
PassMark - G3D Mark	830
PassMark - G2D Mark	253
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 R7 240 OEM
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi	GCN 1.0
Code name	GF108	Oland
Launch date	18 June 2014	1 November 2013
Launch price (MSRP)	$59.99
Place in performance rating	1311	not rated
Price now	$54.99
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	20.48
Technical info
Core clock speed	700 MHz	730 MHz
Floating-point performance	692.7 gflops	499.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	384	320
Texture fill rate	14.43 GTexel / s	15.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	49 Watt	50 Watt
Transistor count	585 million	1,040 million
Boost clock speed		780 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x8
Length	145 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	12.0 (11_1)
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	40.1 GB / s	28.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz	1800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR3