NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 vs ATI Radeon X1600

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 and ATI Radeon X1600 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 7 year(s) 5 month(s) later
  • Around 10% higher core clock speed: 700 MHz vs 635 MHz
  • 5.7x more texture fill rate: 14.43 GTexel / s vs 2.54 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 80 nm
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB
  • 2x more memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 800 MHz
  • 16.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 830 vs 49
  • Around 21% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 253 vs 209
  • 3.3x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3324 vs 1019
  • 3.3x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3324 vs 1019
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 18 June 2014 vs 1 January 2007
Core clock speed 700 MHz vs 635 MHz
Texture fill rate 14.43 GTexel / s vs 2.54 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 80 nm
Maximum memory size 1 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed 1600 MHz vs 800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 830 vs 49
PassMark - G2D Mark 253 vs 209
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3324 vs 1019
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3324 vs 1019

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X1600

  • Around 81% lower typical power consumption: 27 Watt vs 49 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 27 Watt vs 49 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 730
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X1600

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
830
49
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
253
209
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3324
1019
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3324
1019
Name NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 ATI Radeon X1600
PassMark - G3D Mark 830 49
PassMark - G2D Mark 253 209
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 1019
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 1951
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1693
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3324 1019
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 327

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 ATI Radeon X1600

Essentials

Architecture Fermi R500
Code name GF108 RV516
Launch date 18 June 2014 1 January 2007
Launch price (MSRP) $59.99
Place in performance rating 1311 1277
Price now $54.99
Type Desktop Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 20.48

Technical info

Core clock speed 700 MHz 635 MHz
Floating-point performance 692.7 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 80 nm
Pipelines 384
Texture fill rate 14.43 GTexel / s 2.54 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 49 Watt 27 Watt
Transistor count 585 million 107 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA 2x DVI, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Length 145 mm
Supplementary power connectors None None

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 9.0c
OpenGL 4.6 2.0

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 40.1 GB / s 12.8 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1600 MHz 800 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 DDR2