Radeon HD 4850 vs GeForce GT 730

Radeon HD 4850
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 25 Jun 2008
Radeon HD 4850
GeForce GT 730
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Jun 2014
GeForce GT 730

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 4850

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 730

61 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 4850 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 4850

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 4850

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 4850GeForce GT 730
GPU NameRV770 (RV770 PRO)vsGF108 (GF108-400-A1)
Fab Process55 nmvs40 nm
Die Size256 mm²vs116 mm²
Transistors956 millionvs585 million
Shaders800vs96
Compute Units10vs2
Core clock625 MHzvs700 MHz
ROPs16vs4
TMUs40vs16

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 4850GeForce GT 730
Memory TypeGDDR3vsDDR3
Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed993 MHz
1986 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 4850GeForce GT 730
TDP110 wattsvs49 watts
Release Date25 Jun 2008vs18 Jun 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 4850
    10.00 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 730
    2.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 4850
    25.00 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 730
    11.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 4850
    63.60 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 730
    28.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 4850
    1000.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 730
    268.80 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better