Radeon HD 5730 vs GeForce GTX 280
Summary
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5730 |
| 172 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 280 . |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 280 |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
| PhysX support, however PhysX performance on newest games may be poor |
No clear winner declared
We have no data to declare a winner at this time.
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 5730 | | GeForce GTX 280 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | Redwood (Redwood XT) | vs | GT200 (G200-302-A2) |
| Fab Process | 40 nm | vs | 65 nm |
| Die Size | 104 mm² | vs | 576 mm² |
| Transistors | 627 million | vs | 1,400 million |
| Shaders | 400 | vs | 240 |
| Compute Units | 5 | vs | 10 |
| Core clock | 775 MHz | vs | 602 MHz |
| ROPs | 8 | vs | 32 |
| TMUs | 20 | vs | 80 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 5730 | | GeForce GTX 280 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR3 |
| Bus Width | 128 bit | vs | 512 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective | vs | 1107 MHz
2214 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 1024 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 5730 | | GeForce GTX 280 | |
|---|
| TDP | 64 watts | vs | 236 watts |
| Release Date | 26 Feb 2011 | vs | 16 Jun 2008 |
Radeon HD 5730
6.20 GP/s
GeForce GTX 280
19.30 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon HD 5730
15.50 GT/s
GeForce GTX 280
48.20 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon HD 5730
64.00 GB/s
GeForce GTX 280
142.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon HD 5730
620.00 GFLOPs
GeForce GTX 280
622.10 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better