Radeon HD 5850 vs GeForce GT 730

Radeon HD 5850
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 30 Sep 2009
Radeon HD 5850
GeForce GT 730
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Jun 2014
GeForce GT 730

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5850

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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

102 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 5850 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 5850

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 5850

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 5850GeForce GT 730
GPU NameCypress (Cypress PRO)vsGF108 (GF108-400-A1)
Fab Process40 nmvs40 nm
Die Size334 mm²vs116 mm²
Transistors2,154 millionvs585 million
Shaders1440vs96
Compute Units18vs2
Core clock725 MHzvs700 MHz
ROPs32vs4
TMUs72vs16

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 5850GeForce GT 730
Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR3
Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 5850GeForce GT 730
TDP151 wattsvs49 watts
Release Date30 Sep 2009vs18 Jun 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5850
    23.20 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 730
    2.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5850
    52.20 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 730
    11.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 5850
    128.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 730
    28.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 5850
    2088.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 730
    268.80 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better