GeForce GTX 745 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 ranking746not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.16no data
Power efficiency4.76no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Maxwell (2014−2017)
GPU code nameCape VerdeGM107
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date1 May 2013 (11 years ago)18 February 2014 (10 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 cores384384
Core clock speed800 MHz1033 MHz
Number of transistors1,500 million1,870 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)47 Watt55 Watt
Texture fill rate19.2024.79
Floating-point processing power0.6144 TFLOPS0.7933 TFLOPS
ROPs816
TMUs2424

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 3.0 x16
Length168 mm145 mm
Width1-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 typeGDDR5DDR3
Maximum RAM amount1 GB4 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1125 MHz900 MHz
Memory bandwidth72 GB/s28.8 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 DisplayPort1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
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API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12 (11_0)
Shader Model5.15.1
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.2.1311.1.126
CUDA-5.0

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 May 2013 18 February 2014
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 4 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 47 Watt 55 Watt

HD 7730 has 17% lower power consumption.

GTX 745 OEM, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 9 months, and a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 7730 and GeForce GTX 745 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.


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