Graphics card comparison
GeForce GT 730 OEM vs Radeon HD 6790
Nvidia
GeForce GT 730 OEM
1024 Mb GDDR5
Released 9 Apr 2015
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VS
AMD
Radeon HD 6790
1024 Mb GDDR5
Released 4 Apr 2011
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Summary
Synthetic performance index
- GeForce GT 730 OEM100%
- Radeon HD 6790198%
Relative performance
Reasons to consider the GeForce GT 730 OEM
- 86 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 6790 .
- This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
- Supports PhysX
- Supports G-Sync
- Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
- Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications
Reasons to consider the Radeon HD 6790
- Around 98% higher average synthetic performance.
- Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications
Our verdict
HWSpot recommends the Radeon HD 6790
The Radeon HD 6790 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).
Specifications
Core configuration
| GeForce GT 730 OEM | Radeon HD 6790 |
|---|
| GPU Name | GK107 () | Barts (Barts LE) |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | 40 nm |
| Die Size | 118 mm² | 255 mm² |
| Transistors | 1,270 million | 1,700 million |
| Shaders | 384 | 800 |
| Compute Units | 2 | 10 |
| Core clock | 993 MHz | 840 MHz |
| ROPs | 16 | 16 |
| TMUs | 32 | 40 |
Memory configuration
| GeForce GT 730 OEM | Radeon HD 6790 |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 128 bit | 256 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective | 1050 MHz
4200 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 1024 Mb | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GT 730 OEM | Radeon HD 6790 |
|---|
| TDP | 64 watts | 150 watts |
| Release Date | 9 Apr 2015 | 4 Apr 2011 |
Raw performance comparison
Pixel Rate
- GeForce GT 730 OEM7.94 GP/s
- Radeon HD 679013.40 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Texel Rate
- GeForce GT 730 OEM31.80 GT/s
- Radeon HD 679033.60 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Memory bandwidth
- GeForce GT 730 OEM80.00 GB/s
- Radeon HD 6790134.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Single precision performance
- GeForce GT 730 OEM762.60 GFLOPs
- Radeon HD 67901344.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
Synthetic benchmarks
3DMark 11
- GeForce GT 730 OEM1560
- Radeon HD 67903090
Points (higher is better)