Radeon RX 550 vs GeForce GT 730

Radeon RX 550
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Apr 2017
Radeon RX 550
GeForce GT 730
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Jun 2014
GeForce GT 730

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 550

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports TrueAudio
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 730

Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon RX 550

HWBench recommends Radeon RX 550

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX 550GeForce GT 730
GPU NamePolaris 12 (Baffin XT)vsGF108 (GF108-400-A1)
Fab Process14 nmvs40 nm
Die Size0 mm²vs116 mm²
Transistorsunknownvs585 million
Shaders640vs96
Compute Units10vs2
Core clock1125 MHzvs700 MHz
ROPs16vs4
TMUs40vs16

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 550GeForce GT 730
Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1750 MHz
7000 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 550GeForce GT 730
TDP0 wattsvs49 watts
Release Date1 Apr 2017vs18 Jun 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 550
    20.83 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 730
    2.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 550
    52.10 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 730
    11.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 550
    112.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 730
    28.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 550
    1666.60 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 730
    268.80 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better