Radeon HD 6870 vs GeForce GT 730

Radeon HD 6870
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 21 Oct 2010
Radeon HD 6870
GeForce GT 730
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Jun 2014
GeForce GT 730

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6870

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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 6870 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 6870

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 6870

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 6870GeForce GT 730
GPU NameBarts (Barts XT)vsGF108 (GF108-400-A1)
Fab Process40 nmvs40 nm
Die Size255 mm²vs116 mm²
Transistors1,700 millionvs585 million
Shaders1120vs96
Compute Units14vs2
Core clock900 MHzvs700 MHz
ROPs32vs4
TMUs56vs16

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 6870GeForce GT 730
Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR3
Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1050 MHz
4200 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 6870GeForce GT 730
TDP151 wattsvs49 watts
Release Date21 Oct 2010vs18 Jun 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 6870
    28.80 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 730
    2.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 6870
    50.40 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 730
    11.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 6870
    134.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 730
    28.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 6870
    2016.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 730
    268.80 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better