![]() ![]() This website is operated by Manli Technology Group Limited (“Manli”), a company incorporated under the laws of Hong Kong, with a in Taiwan, having its registered office at Unit 1601, 16th Floor, Seaview Centre, 139-141 Hoi Bun Road, Kwun Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong. (Also see: What’s the best graphics card 2015. It’s not as quiet as some bargain-basement cards we’ve seen – the R7 240 is marginally softer – but noise levels are still relatively low. At this level of performance, you’re not likely to need much power. The 730 consumes a little more power than the R7 240, although the difference is rarely more than around five watts. Its three ports number one each of DVI, HDMI, and VGA, and no extra connectors are required from the PSU. The GT 730 does have more stream processors than the Radeon R7 240 – 384 to 320 – but the card is otherwise fairly standard. Its figure of 11.2GT/sec significantly trails the 14.4GT/sec of a typical 64bit 730, and ends up a long way behind the Radeon R7 240’s 15.6GT/sec. Added to this, the Radeon touts more texture units (20 rather than 16) than the 730, and you have a card that struggles on fill rates. And even the Radeon R7 240 – which retails for less, but also has the 128bit bus – offers a core clock of 780MHz. So whereas this card offers a core clock speed of just 700MHz, a typical 64bit GT 730 might go beyond 900MHz. That’s because, with the 128bit GT 730s, you’re having to sacrifice some core speed in order to get that wider bus. If the GT 730 keeps up with the competition on memory clocks, it struggles rather more on texture handling. (Also see: What’s the best budget graphics card 2015. This amounts to far more flexibility in the case of the MSI GT 730 and, in our opinion, a 128bit bus is a must-have. This MSI card produces a memory bandwidth figure of 28.8GB/sec – double that of the 14.4GB/sec rate that would ensue if the 730 had a 64bit bus. You can find 64bit-bus versions which have higher figures, but these, crucially, will be hampered by their narrow buses. The 128bit MSI GT 730 has a standard memory clock speed of 900MHz, which is then doubled by the GDDR3 to produce an ‘effective’ figure of 1800MHz. This isn’t as easy to find as the 730 with a 64bit memory bus, but it’ll produce superior performance for a little extra. So here we’re covering the MSI GeForce GT 730 2048MB. In our opinion, that’s a mistake, as the narrow 64bit bus really does keep a lid on overall performance. As it turns out though, most 730 card manufacturers have decided to use the 64bit interface, regardless of whether there’s 1GB or 2GB onboard. Originally, it was thought that the 1GB versions would carry a 128bit bus, while the 2GB cards would have only a 64bit bus. Most of the GT 730s now come with a 64bit memory interface. Of far more importance, though, will be the memory bus and core clock speed. Do you go for a version with 1GB, 2GB or 4GB of memory? Do you opt for the card that has a 64bit bus, or the one with a wider 128bit bus, but perhaps inferior clock rates? That’s because the 730 GT chip comes in multiple ‘flavours’. The GT 730 may be cheap, but it’s not terribly simple. However, our advice would still be to save up a little extra and look to the £65+ products instead.īudget graphics card from MSI offers great value, but it doesn’t offer a significant boost to framerates. It is the best for the money, and you can, at a pinch, play decent games on it. Even at a resolution of 1680×1050, the GT 730 is generally only just breaking the 30fps mark. Perhaps the bigger question is whether you should buy any card at this low price point. However, the lead – rarely more than 2.2fps – is very minor. The MSI GT 730 is clearly the best of the sub-£48 cards we’ve seen lately, and fairly consistently beats the R7 240 in game testing. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |