Radeon HD 4830 vs GeForce GT 730 GDDR5

Radeon HD 4830
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 21 Oct 2008
Radeon HD 4830
GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Jun 2014
GeForce GT 730 GDDR5

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon HD 4830
    106%
  • GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 4830

Around 6% higher average synthetic performance.
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 730 GDDR5

57 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 4830 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 4830

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 4830

The Radeon HD 4830 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 4830GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
GPU NameRV770 (RV770 LE)vsGK208 ()
Fab Process55 nmvs28 nm
Die Size256 mm²vs87 mm²
Transistors956 millionvsunknown
Shaders640vs384
Compute Units8vs2
Core clock575 MHzvs902 MHz
ROPs16vs8
TMUs32vs16

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 4830GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
Memory TypeGDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 4830GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
TDP95 wattsvs38 watts
Release Date21 Oct 2008vs18 Jun 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 4830
    9.20 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
    7.22 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 4830
    18.40 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
    14.43 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 4830
    57.60 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
    40.10 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 4830
    736.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
    692.70 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon HD 4830
    1660
  • GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
    1560

Points (higher is better)