is the GT 730 still a good card

[hardtofindinthefuture]

Is the GT730 still a good card?

Can it run GTA?

What can i do? or is it outdated.

 

Tell me

[79wjd]

It never was a "good card". So no. 

[Guest]

1 minute ago, v0nn_toaster said:

Is the GT730 still a good card?

Can it run GTA?

What can i do? or is it outdated.

 

Tell me

I mean it can run GTA. GTA SA and GTA 3 is still very capable. 

[Rune]

No.

[Apollo Refugio]

2 minutes ago, deXxterlab97 said:

I mean it can run GTA. GTA SA and GTA 3 is still very capable. 

oh i guess it's decent as a display adapter

[Droidbot]

low end. really low end. not horrid, but barely passable for modern gaming. 

it's technically better than 4600 integrated graphics

[hardtofindinthefuture]

4 minutes ago, deXxterlab97 said:

I mean it can run GTA. GTA SA and GTA 3 is still very capable. 

i ment gta v ;-;

 

[Apollo Refugio]

1 minute ago, v0nn_toaster said:

i ment gta v ;-;

 

oh, maybe 600x480 at lowest at 20 fps

[Guest]

1 minute ago, v0nn_toaster said:

i ment gta v ;-;

 

Yeah, barely able to run it at 768p

 

[WkdPaul]

Thread moved to Graphic Cards

[Energycore]

6 minutes ago, v0nn_toaster said:

Is the GT730 still a good card?

Can it run GTA?

What can i do? or is it outdated.

 

Tell me

Well there are two versions of the GT 730, one sucks and the other is a bit better than Skylake iGPU. If your 730 has GDDR5, chances are it's good. But the easiest way to find out whether it'll run your game is to search for "GT 730 GDDR5 GTA V performance", or go to the GTA V minimum specs and see how it compares. Turning down resolution to 1280x720 would also help.

[hardtofindinthefuture]

2 minutes ago, deXxterlab97 said:

Yeah, barely able to run it at 768p

 

good enough for me

ive lived me whole life with shitty HP desktops

that barely push 30FPS on minecraft

[NTDaws]

I mean it runs. But you would actually be better with a 750 ti.

[Osangar]

I'd recommend something a little higher end if you're into gaming.

Maybe a 750 Ti or something similar. 

[Droidbot]

4 minutes ago, Dawson Wehage said:

I mean it runs. But you would actually be better with a 750 ti.

 

3 minutes ago, Osangar said:

I'd recommend something a little higher end if you're into gaming.

Maybe a 750 Ti or something similar. 

He's probably already got it guys

[hardtofindinthefuture]

1 minute ago, Droidbot said:

 

He's probably already got it guys

lol

[HKZeroFive]

IIRC, it's comparable to integrated graphics... meaning it's not very good at all.

[Dabombinable]

It was never a good card...and an 8800GTX/9800GTX+/GTS 250 would be better.

[manikyath]

it's not horrid, it's just... low end.

 

also, avoid the 1GB DDR3 version like the plague, for obvious reasons:

http://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gt-730/specifications

 

if you're buying one new, i do really want to press on a GTX750Ti instead, they're only a small bit more, for a huge leap in performance. (off the top of my head, we're talking in the range of 2-3x the real world performance)

[manikyath]

3 minutes ago, Dabombinable said:

8800GTX

from experience, against a GT640 (which is essentially on par with the 730), no, it hilareously does not come even close.

 

just because of how dated those things are, you're not going to have a very good experience.

[Phentos]

The GT 730 isn't worth anyone's time.

 

Do yourself a favor and save up for at least the 750 TI. Please.

[aisle9]

I'll voice a defense of the 730. A while back, I bought a crappy OEM GT 730 for $20 to use in an HTPC. 2GB of VRAM, sure, but it's DDR3. It's very literally, IIRC, just a rebadged GT 430 that was handed out to OEMs who wanted a "gaming" card in their prebuilts.

 

What's really scary is that when you see Dell hocking XPS high performance desktops with an i7-6700, this is the exact GPU they load in there. I'm not sure if that says more about Dell or about what people will throw their wallets at you for if you attach the word "gaming" to it.

 

But I digress. By quite a bit, actually. I'm supposed to be defending the damn card, right?

 

Hell, now I can't even remember what I thought was defensible about it. If you can get your hands on a GT 4--er--730 DDR3 for $10-15, it'll handle 1080p streaming content at 30fps well enough. You might be able to play Solitaire without frame drops, but that whole bouncing deck thing at the end could kill it. And when you consider that the GDDR5 version isn't really that much better...

 

GDDR5 HD7770 cards are going for $25-35 on eBay. Even those are just ever so slightly barely a teeny little bit capable of GTA V at 1080p, but they're awesome 900p and 720p cards, and if you can't afford a 750 Ti or 1050, those are solid cards that you could probably afford just by selling the 730.

[mohammedarhum]

From personal experience,  It is quite good for 720p gaming@low settings.(for older titles) 

I mostly play NFS titles, which perfom quite well at decent details

For GTA5, I started in a city @720p High and I get 35-40 FPS, but few FPS drops due to: (Actually upto 15 FPS drops)

-Game installed on an external HDD

-CPU (Core 2 Duo E8400 3 GHz)

Remember, if you buy one make sure its the 2GB GDDR5 version, as DDR3 versions are useless.

[Dabombinable]

5 minutes ago, aisle9 said:

I'll voice a defense of the 730. A while back, I bought a crappy OEM GT 730 for $20 to use in an HTPC. 2GB of VRAM, sure, but it's DDR3. It's very literally, IIRC, just a rebadged GT 430 that was handed out to OEMs who wanted a "gaming" card in their prebuilts.

 

What's really scary is that when you see Dell hocking XPS high performance desktops with an i7-6700, this is the exact GPU they load in there. I'm not sure if that says more about Dell or about what people will throw their wallets at you for if you attach the word "gaming" to it.

 

But I digress. By quite a bit, actually. I'm supposed to be defending the damn card, right?

 

Hell, now I can't even remember what I thought was defensible about it. If you can get your hands on a GT 4--er--730 DDR3 for $10-15, it'll handle 1080p streaming content at 30fps well enough. You might be able to play Solitaire without frame drops, but that whole bouncing deck thing at the end could kill it. And when you consider that the GDDR5 version isn't really that much better...

 

GDDR5 HD7770 cards are going for $25-35 on eBay. Even those are just ever so slightly barely a teeny little bit capable of GTA V at 1080p, but they're awesome 900p and 720p cards, and if you can't afford a 750 Ti or 1050, those are solid cards that you could probably afford just by selling the 730.

I'm very glad that in my custom pre-built from early 2014 that I specified a GTX 650ti OC 2GB to go with the i5 4440. The similar rig with an ATX motherboard+16GB RAM+i7 4770 only had a 1GB GTX 650 and cost an extra $1000 AUD . And recently seeing an i5 6500 inside a pre-built (I think it was Dell or HP) paired with card far weaker than the iGPU....