NVIDIA GeForce GT 730M vs AMD Radeon HD 8730M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 730M and AMD Radeon HD 8730M 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, 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 730M

• Videocard is newer: launch date 11 month(s) later
• Around 11% higher core clock speed: 719 MHz vs 650 MHz
• Around 3% better floating-point performance: 552.2 gflops vs 537.6 gflops
• Around 3% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 814 vs 793
• Around 20% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 7.814 vs 6.51
• Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 1654 vs 1637
• Around 16% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 2370 vs 2037
• Around 86% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3358 vs 1806
• Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 1654 vs 1637
• Around 16% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 2370 vs 2037
• Around 86% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3358 vs 1806

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8730M

• Around 46% higher texture fill rate: 16.8 GTexel / s vs 11.5 GTexel / s
• Around 11% higher memory clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 1800 MHz
• Around 2% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 178 vs 174
• 2x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 5964 vs 2975
• Around 78% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 289.464 vs 162.583
• Around 64% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 1.306 vs 0.798
• Around 58% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 18.747 vs 11.854

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 730M
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 8730M

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	814 793
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	174 178
Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	2975 5964
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	7.814 6.51
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	162.583 289.464
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	0.798 1.306
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	11.854 18.747
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1654 1637
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2370 2037
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3358 1806
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1654 1637
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2370 2037
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3358 1806

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