NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 and NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS 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) 2 month(s) later
• Around 30% higher core clock speed: 700 MHz vs 540 MHz
• 3.3x more texture fill rate: 14.43 GTexel / s vs 4.32 GTexel / s
• 24x more pipelines: 384 vs 16
• 18.2x better floating-point performance: 692.7 gflops vs 38.08 gflops
• 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
• 9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 830 vs 92
• 2.5x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 253 vs 100

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

• Around 4% lower typical power consumption: 47 Watt vs 49 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 730
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	830 92
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	253 100

Compare specifications (specs)