GeForce GT 730 vs Radeon R5 Graphics

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated863
Place by popularitynot in top-10037
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data0.19
Power efficiencyno data3.02
ArchitectureGCN 2.0 (2013−2017)Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code nameSpectre SLGF108
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date17 September 2014 (10 years ago)18 June 2014 (10 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$59.99

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 cores25696
Core clock speed497 MHz700 MHz
Boost clock speed720 MHzno data
Number of transistors2,410 million585 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt49 Watt
Texture fill rate7.95211.2 GT/s
Floating-point processing power0.2545 TFLOPS0.2688 TFLOPS
ROPs44
TMUs1616

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).

InterfaceIGPPCIe 2.0 x16
Lengthno data145 mm
WidthIGP1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeSystem SharedDDR3
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared2 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared128 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared900 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data25.6 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 ConnectorsNo outputs1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12 (11_0)
Shader Model6.05.1
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.01.1
Vulkan1.2.131N/A
CUDA-2.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 17 September 2014 18 June 2014
Chip lithography 28 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 49 Watt

R5 Graphics has an age advantage of 2 months, a 42.9% more advanced lithography process, and 226.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R5 Graphics and GeForce GT 730. We've got no test results to judge.


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