In terms of overall gaming performance, the graphical capabilities of the Nvidia GeForce GT 730 v2 Inno3D Low Profile 1GB Edition are noticeably better than the AMD Radeon R7 240 2GB.

The GT 730 has a 172 MHz higher core clock speed than the R7 240, but the R7 240 has 4 more Texture Mapping Units than the GT 730. As a result, the R7 240 exhibits a 0.2 GTexel/s better Texture Fill Rate than the GT 730. This still holds weight but shader performance is generally more relevant, particularly since both of these GPUs support at least DirectX 10.

The GT 730 has a 172 MHz higher core clock speed than the R7 240 and the same number of Render Output Units. This results in the GT 730 providing 1.4 GPixel/s better pixeling performance. However, both GPUs support DirectX 9 or above, and pixeling performance is only really relevant when comparing older cards.

The GT 730 was released less than a year after the R7 240, and so they are likely to have similar driver support for optimizing performance when running the latest games.

The R7 240 has 1024 MB more video memory than the GT 730, so is likely to be much better at displaying game textures at higher resolutions. However, overall, the GT 730 has superior memory performance.

The GT 730 has 11.3 GB/sec greater memory bandwidth than the R7 240, which means that the memory performance of the GT 730 is slightly better than the R7 240.

The GeForce GT 730 v2 Inno3D Low Profile 1GB Edition has 384 Shader Processing Units and the Radeon R7 240 2GB has 320. However, the actual shader performance of the GT 730 is 346 and the actual shader performance of the R7 240 is 212. The GT 730 having 134 better shader performance and an altogether better performance when taking into account other relevant data means that the GT 730 delivers a marginally smoother and more efficient experience when processing graphical data than the R7 240.

The GeForce GT 730 v2 Inno3D Low Profile 1GB Edition requires 38 Watts to run and the Radeon R7 240 2GB requires 30 Watts. We would recommend a PSU with at least 300 Watts for the GT 730 and a PSU with at least 400 Watts for the R7 240. The GT 730 requires 8 Watts more than the R7 240 to run. The difference is not significant enough for the GT 730 to have a noticeably larger impact on your yearly electricity bills than the R7 240.