Wednesday, June 18th 2014
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NVIDIA Announces GeForce GT 730
NVIDIA announced its new entry-level GeForce GT 730 graphics processor. Based on the same 28 nm "GK107" silicon as the GeForce GT 740, which launched last month, the GT 730 is essentially a GT 740 with lower clock speeds, and slower DDR3 memory. Core clock speeds start at 908 MHz, and memory at 1.80 GHz (DDR). 1 GB is the standard memory amount. Most cards based on this chip will be based on half-height (low-profile) PCBs, some single-slot with active (fan) cooling, others double-slot, with passive (fan-less) cooling. In the era of AMD GCN-based APUs, and Intel Iris Pro graphics, NVIDIA could be targeting a dwindling two-figure price.
25 Comments on NVIDIA Announces GeForce GT 730
R7-240///A10-7700K IGP///A10-7850K IGP : way above that rebadged low end card. ok ok maybe for a Celeron/Pentium mITX PC it would be a good idea (cost to cost versus a Kaveri APU build)
www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gt-730/specifications
gt730 fermi, aka gt630 D3 and gt730 gk208, aka gt630(Kepler):
www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gt-630/specifications
gt730 gddr5, aka gt640 gddr5 gk208 with lower clocks:
www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gt640/specifications
I see the market for this to idiots who only talk about their Hz and how many gigathings of their memories they have on their whole computer.
I have another rig in the attic that I'm about to get rid of, the person who will be using it won't be playing games so something low power without any umfph would be in order because it too doesn't have an iGPU.
I see the market for people just needing a GPU for a tower that already exists that doesn't plan on doing any gaming whatsoever. An APU assumes you already have it, but if all I need is a GPU, why invest >100 USD in the platform when all you really need is a cheap GPU? To think someone expects games to run well on this is sadly mistaken and it's like someone getting a Celeron and wondering why it sucks for games. You get what you pay for.
Then may I suggest any of these for less, without fans, enough GPU horsepower to run a basic display, and did I mention less?
5 years from now I will present the same argument for this card when they rebrand some other left over die as something new to sell and it finally fits their price it commands.
www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814131338
Hell, they are almost giving this away. Would you buy it and use it, or does the shiny new numbers from (your) god head force your hand to pass?
Gosh, if NVIDIA wanted to troll us, they could at least make it entertaining with some specs like a 256 bit memory bus with 4gb DDR2
Sigh, people who design these low end cards really have no concept of "adequate memory bandwidth"
My GT 650m on my laptop (i.e. the GT640) with GDDR3 is slower than a sloth doing calculus. Worst part is that stuff it's actually supposed to run (i.e. 60+FPS) stutter like anything as the data is streaming from the memory bank.
Damn, at least the terrible GT 440 in the past was actually a reasonably balanced design.
@Aquinus
It was a joke :p
www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/evga-announces-geforce-gt-730.202206/
8 versions of 730 including one with GDDR5!!!!!!!!!!!! :))))))))))))) Are you fking kidding me!?!?!?!?!?!? :)))))
But yes I do believe there will be people who will buy it only as its says Nvidia 730 and has more memory. If after a reasonable discussion about price/performance/features they still do it I believe they are idiots, I don't hate them for it, the world needs ditch diggers too.
I mean they just pack this, with the cheapest VRAM there is and call it a new card. Not that AMD is not doing the same thing, but still...
I have an old (2009) hp dc7900 business machine (e7400 2.8ghz core2duo, 4g ram, x4550 integrated graphics) which doesn't meet business needs. I was going to literally take it to the dump when someone told me I could game with it.
Downloaded Warcraft as a test ...got 15fps ...useless.
Bought gt730 on Amazon for £42 and get 100-110 fps (before overclocking the gpu)
So now it's a tolerable games machine for £42 rather than buried in a landfill site.
You can buy a dc7900 like mine without Gpu for £30 on eBay ...so a tolerable games machine for £70 ($100 ish) isn't an excessive price
Guess I was their market ...someone too mean to dump old kit and too mean to buy a proper gaming machine!
£800 to build a skylake i5 6600k with asus mobo plus cost of a good Gpu ...or £70 for ok function...
uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/pLVG4D
I'm amused someone signed up just to comment on a year old thread.