NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT Rebrand

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 and NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT Rebrand 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

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT Rebrand

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 730

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 10 month(s) later
3x more pipelines: 384 vs 128
Around 55% better floating-point performance: 692.7 gflops vs 448.0 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 65 nm
2.6x lower typical power consumption: 49 Watt vs 125 Watt
2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB

Launch date	18 June 2014 vs 21 July 2008
Pipelines	384 vs 128
Floating-point performance	692.7 gflops vs 448.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 65 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	49 Watt vs 125 Watt
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 512 MB

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT Rebrand

Around 4% higher core clock speed: 725 MHz vs 700 MHz
3.2x more texture fill rate: 46.4 GTexel / s vs 14.43 GTexel / s
Around 25% higher memory clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 1600 MHz

Core clock speed	725 MHz vs 700 MHz
Texture fill rate	46.4 GTexel / s vs 14.43 GTexel / s
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz vs 1600 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 730
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT Rebrand

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 730	NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT Rebrand
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	NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT Rebrand
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi	Tesla
Code name	GF108	G92
Launch date	18 June 2014	21 July 2008
Launch price (MSRP)	$59.99	$160
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	725 MHz
Floating-point performance	692.7 gflops	448.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	384	128
Texture fill rate	14.43 GTexel / s	46.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	49 Watt	125 Watt
Transistor count	585 million	754 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 2.0 x16
Length	145 mm	229 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	10.0
OpenGL	4.6	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	40.1 GB / s	64.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz	2000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3