NVIDIA GeForce GT 730A vs AMD Radeon HD 7950

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 730A and AMD Radeon HD 7950 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 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 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 730A

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 5 month(s) later
  • 9.1x lower typical power consumption: 33 Watt vs 300 Watt
  • Around 44% higher memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 1250 MHz
Launch date 1 July 2014 vs 31 January 2012
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 33 Watt vs 300 Watt
Memory clock speed 1800 MHz vs 1250 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7950

  • 6.2x more texture fill rate: 89.6 GTexel / s vs 14.38 GTexel / s
  • 4.7x more pipelines: 1792 vs 384
  • 5.2x better floating-point performance: 2,867 gflops vs 552.2 gflops
  • Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 3 GB vs 2 GB
  • 2.6x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3699 vs 1436
  • 2.6x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3699 vs 1436
  • Around 96% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3359 vs 1711
  • Around 96% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3359 vs 1711
Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate 89.6 GTexel / s vs 14.38 GTexel / s
Pipelines 1792 vs 384
Floating-point performance 2,867 gflops vs 552.2 gflops
Maximum memory size 3 GB vs 2 GB
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3699 vs 1436
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3699 vs 1436
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3359 vs 1711
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3359 vs 1711

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 730A
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7950

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1436
3699
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1436
3699
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1711
3359
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1711
3359
Name NVIDIA GeForce GT 730A AMD Radeon HD 7950
PassMark - G3D Mark 743
PassMark - G2D Mark 714
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1436 3699
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1436 3699
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1711 3359
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1711 3359
Geekbench - OpenCL 82144
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 63.74
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1177.395
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 5.685
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 69.23
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 343.81
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 7988
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 7988
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 1914

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 730A AMD Radeon HD 7950

Essentials

Architecture Kepler 2.0 GCN 1.0
Code name GK208 Tahiti
Launch date 1 July 2014 31 January 2012
Place in performance rating 518 527
Type Desktop Desktop
Design AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series
Launch price (MSRP) $449

Technical info

Core clock speed 719 MHz
Floating-point performance 552.2 gflops 2,867 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 384 1792
Texture fill rate 14.38 GTexel / s 89.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 33 Watt 300 Watt
Boost clock speed 1250 MHz
Compute units 28
Stream Processors 1792
Transistor count 4,313 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
Number of Eyefinity displays 6
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x8 PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus support PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 267 mm
Supplementary power connectors 2x 6-pin

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 11
OpenGL 4.6 4.5

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 3 GB
Memory bandwidth 28.8 GB / s 240 GB/s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 384 Bit
Memory clock speed 1800 MHz 1250 MHz
Memory type DDR3 GDDR5

Technologies

AMD Eyefinity
AppAcceleration
CrossFire
FreeSync
PowerTune
ZeroCore