Radeon HD 5850 vs GeForce GT 730 GDDR5

Radeon HD 5850
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 30 Sep 2009
Radeon HD 5850
GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Jun 2014
GeForce GT 730 GDDR5

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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 GDDR5

113 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
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 5850

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 5850

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 5850GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
GPU NameCypress (Cypress PRO)vsGK208 ()
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size334 mm²vs87 mm²
Transistors2,154 millionvsunknown
Shaders1440vs384
Compute Units18vs2
Core clock725 MHzvs902 MHz
ROPs32vs8
TMUs72vs16

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 5850GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective
vs1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 5850GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
TDP151 wattsvs38 watts
Release Date30 Sep 2009vs18 Jun 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5850
    23.20 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
    7.22 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5850
    52.20 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
    14.43 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 5850
    128.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
    40.10 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 5850
    2088.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
    692.70 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better