NVIDIA GeForce GT 730M vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 730M and NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 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 10 year(s) 9 month(s) later
  • Around 80% higher core clock speed: 719 MHz vs 400 MHz
  • 3.6x more texture fill rate: 11.5 GTexel / s vs 3.2 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 130 nm
  • 16x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 128 MB
  • 2.6x more memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 700 MHz
  • 23.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 812 vs 35
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 6 March 2014 vs 12 May 2003
Core clock speed 719 MHz vs 400 MHz
Texture fill rate 11.5 GTexel / s vs 3.2 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size 2 GB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed 1800 MHz vs 700 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 812 vs 35

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900

  • Around 8% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 188 vs 174
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 188 vs 174

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 730M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
812
35
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
174
188
Name NVIDIA GeForce GT 730M NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900
PassMark - G3D Mark 812 35
PassMark - G2D Mark 174 188
Geekbench - OpenCL 2975
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 7.814
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 162.583
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 0.798
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 11.854
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 30.631
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 1654
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2370
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3358
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 1654
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2370
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3358

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 730M NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900

Essentials

Architecture Kepler 2.0 Rankine
Code name GK208 NV35
Launch date 6 March 2014 12 May 2003
Place in performance rating 1320 961
Type Laptop Desktop
Launch price (MSRP) $399

Technical info

Core clock speed 719 MHz 400 MHz
Floating-point performance 552.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 130 nm
Pipelines 384
Texture fill rate 11.5 GTexel / s 3.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 33 Watt
Transistor count 1,270 million 135 million

Video outputs and ports

7.1 channel HD audio on HDMI
Display Connectors No outputs 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support Up to 3840x2160
eDP 1.2 signal support Up to 3840x2160
HDCP content protection
HDMI
LVDS signal support Up to 1920x1200
TrueHD and DTS-HD audio bitstreaming
VGA аnalog display support Up to 2048x1536

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCI Express 3.0, PCI Express 2.0
Interface PCIe 2.0 x8 AGP 8x
Laptop size medium sized
Length 218 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x Molex

API support

DirectX 12 API 9.0a
OpenCL 1.1
OpenGL 4.5 1.5 (2.1)

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 128 MB
Memory bandwidth 14.4 GB / s 22.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 / 128 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1800 MHz 700 MHz
Memory type DDR3 DDR
Shared memory 0
Standard memory configuration DDR3 / GDDR5

Technologies

3D Vision
3D Vision / 3DTV Play
Blu-Ray 3D Support
CUDA
Direct Compute
FXAA
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
Optimus
TXAA