Radeon HD 5730 vs GeForce GTX 275

Radeon HD 5730
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 26 Feb 2011
Radeon HD 5730
GeForce GTX 275
Memory: 896Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 15 Jan 2009
GeForce GTX 275

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5730

155 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 275 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 275

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

GeForce GTX 275

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 275

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 5730GeForce GTX 275
GPU NameRedwood (Redwood XT)vsGT200B (G200-105-B3)
Fab Process40 nmvs55 nm
Die Size104 mm²vs470 mm²
Transistors627 millionvs1,400 million
Shaders400vs240
Compute Units5vs10
Core clock775 MHzvs633 MHz
ROPs8vs28
TMUs20vs80

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 5730GeForce GTX 275
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs448 bit
Memory Speed1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective
vs1134 MHz
2268 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs896 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 5730GeForce GTX 275
TDP64 wattsvs219 watts
Release Date26 Feb 2011vs15 Jan 2009

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5730
    6.20 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 275
    17.70 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5730
    15.50 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 275
    50.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 5730
    64.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 275
    127.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 5730
    620.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 275
    673.90 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better