GeForce GTS 240 OEM vs Radeon HD 7730

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking762not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.16no data
Power efficiency4.51no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameCape VerdeG92B
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date1 May 2013 (11 years ago)1 July 2009 (15 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$59 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores384112
Core clock speed800 MHz675 MHz
Number of transistors1,500 million754 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)47 Watt120 Watt
Texture fill rate19.2037.80
Floating-point processing power0.6144 TFLOPS0.3629 TFLOPS
ROPs816
TMUs2456

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Length168 mm229 mm
Width1-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 6-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount1 GB1 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1125 MHz1100 MHz
Memory bandwidth72 GB/s70.4 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort2x DVI, 1x S-Video
HDMI+-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (11_1)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model5.14.0
OpenGL4.63.3
OpenCL1.21.1
Vulkan1.2.131N/A
CUDA-1.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 May 2013 1 July 2009
Chip lithography 28 nm 55 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 47 Watt 120 Watt

HD 7730 has an age advantage of 3 years, a 96.4% more advanced lithography process, and 155.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 7730 and GeForce GTS 240 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon HD 7730
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