GeForce GT 730M: FPS benchmarks and laptop guide

The NVIDIA GeForce GT 730M is a 2013 Kepler entry card — the GT tier that preconfigured laptops used for a modest graphics step above integrated silicon of that era. This guide covers its 19 benchmarked games at 1080p on high and the two catalog listings matched to it.

Where the GeForce GT 730M sits in 2026

A catalog score of 0.8 places it among the very last rows of the 341-chip ranking — the bottom handful of entries. The neighbors tell the era: the Radeon HD 6490M (0.9), HD 7520G (0.8) and HD 7340 (0.8) nearby, with the HD 7310, HD 6480G and Mobility Radeon HD 5470 (0.6) below. When a 2013 discrete GPU ranks alongside 2011-2012 integrated parts, the verdict is already written: thirteen years of progress have swept past this chip entirely.

What the chip brings

Kepler architecture, GK107 codename, 28nm process: 384 CUDA cores boosting to 725MHz, rated at just 0.56 teraflops, with 2GB of DDR3 memory on a 128-bit bus at 28GB/s, a 33W envelope and CUDA flagged. Public benchmarks: PassMark 809, Fire Strike 1061, GeekBench Vulkan 3025 and OpenCL 3266. DDR3 memory on a weak Kepler core — the same budget mismatch that defined this tier across the decade.

FPS in games at 1080p

The table is short below the capped quartet: Valorant at 35 fps, GRID Autosport 25, DOTA 2 21, Wolfenstein: The New Order 14, Forza Horizon 4 10, Fortnite 9, The Witcher 3 8, Watch Dogs 6, Battlefield 5 5, Counter-Strike 2 4. The modern block bottoms out at slideshow levels: Cyberpunk 2077 4, Forza Horizon 5 4, Metro Exodus 3, Far Cry 5 4, Resident Evil 4 remake 1. Older titles at low settings are the entire playable set.

Laptops that carry it

Two listings match: the Lenovo IdeaPad U530 (2013) at $219 — a slim convertible of its year — and the ThinkPad T540p (2013) at $147, the business 15-inch workhorse. The fleet medians (best-GPU 23.3, gaming index 41.5) reflect those models' stronger GPU options rather than this chip; the T540p in particular shipped across a ladder of graphics, with this near the bottom. Judge each listing on its actual spec sheet.

Bottom line

The GT 730M is a bottom-row entry for honest reasons: a 384-core Kepler with DDR3 memory was entry-tier in 2013 and is below every integrated GPU sold today. Its two host machines are classic 2013 laptops — a $147 ThinkPad business unit and a $219 IdeaPad convertible — and both can still serve as light-duty typing machines. The graphics, however, should factor into any buying decision as zero: this page exists so that shoppers meeting the name in a listing know exactly what it means, and what it doesn't.