GeForce GT 730A: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
GeForce GT 730A provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 1.93% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 4090.
Summary
NVIDIA started GeForce GT 730A sales 1 July 2014. This is a Kepler 2.0 architecture notebook card based on 28 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use. 2 GB of DDR3 memory clocked at 1 GHz are supplied, and together with 64 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 16.02 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a graphics card attached via PCIe 3.0 x8 interface. Power consumption is at 33 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about GeForce GT 730A: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | 905 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Power efficiency | 4.02 | of 100.00 (Radeon 890M) |
| Architecture | Kepler 2.0 (2013−2015) | |
| GPU code name | GK208 | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Release date | 1 July 2014 (10 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
GeForce GT 730A's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce GT 730A's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 384 | of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| Core clock speed | 719 MHz | of 2670 MHz (Arc B580) |
| Number of transistors | 915 million | of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm | of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 33 Watt | of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 23.01 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Floating-point processing power | 0.5522 TFLOPS | of 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| ROPs | 8 | of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX) |
| TMUs | 32 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce GT 730A and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | PCIe 3.0 x8 |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on GeForce GT 730A: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | DDR3 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 2 GB | of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 64 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 1001 MHz | of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 16.02 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce GT 730A. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | No outputs |
API compatibility
APIs supported by GeForce GT 730A, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 (11_0) | |
| Shader Model | 5.1 | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| OpenCL | 1.2 | |
| Vulkan | 1.1.126 | |
| CUDA | 3.5 |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce GT 730A. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.
Passmark
This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.
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AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce GT 730A is Mobility Radeon HD 5850, which is slower by 1% and lower by 2 positions in our ranking.
Here are some closest AMD rivals to GeForce GT 730A:
Similar GPUs
Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with GeForce GT 730A according to our statistics.
