Radeon HD 4850 vs GeForce GT 730 OEM

Radeon HD 4850
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 25 Jun 2008
Radeon HD 4850
GeForce GT 730 OEM
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 9 Apr 2015
GeForce GT 730 OEM
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Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon HD 4850
    121%
  • GeForce GT 730 OEM
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 4850

Around 21% 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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 OEM

46 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
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 4850

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 4850

The Radeon HD 4850 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 4850GeForce GT 730 OEM
GPU NameRV770 (RV770 PRO)vsGK107 ()
Fab Process55 nmvs28 nm
Die Size256 mm²vs118 mm²
Transistors956 millionvs1,270 million
Shaders800vs384
Compute Units10vs2
Core clock625 MHzvs993 MHz
ROPs16vs16
TMUs40vs32

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 4850GeForce GT 730 OEM
Memory TypeGDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed993 MHz
1986 MHz effective
vs1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 4850GeForce GT 730 OEM
TDP110 wattsvs64 watts
Release Date25 Jun 2008vs9 Apr 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 4850
    10.00 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 730 OEM
    7.94 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 4850
    25.00 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 730 OEM
    31.80 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 4850
    63.60 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 730 OEM
    80.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 4850
    1000.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 730 OEM
    762.60 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon HD 4850
    1890
  • GeForce GT 730 OEM
    1560

Points (higher is better)