Radeon RX 5500 vs GeForce GT 730 GDDR5

Radeon RX 5500
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR6DESKTOP
Release date: 7 Oct 2019
Radeon RX 5500
GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Jun 2014
GeForce GT 730 GDDR5

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 5500

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)

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 730 GDDR5

112 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon RX 5500 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 RX 5500

HWBench recommends Radeon RX 5500

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX 5500GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
GPU NameNavi 14 (Navi 14 XT)vsGK208 ()
Fab Process7 nmvs28 nm
Die Size158 mm²vs87 mm²
Transistors6,400 millionvsunknown
Shaders1408vs384
Compute Units22vs2
Core clock1670 MHzvs902 MHz
ROPs32vs8
TMUs88vs16

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 5500GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
Memory TypeGDDR6vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed1750 MHz
14000 MHz effective
vs1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective
Memory Size8192 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 5500GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
TDP150 wattsvs38 watts
Release Date7 Oct 2019vs18 Jun 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 5500
    59.04 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
    7.22 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 5500
    162.40 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
    14.43 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 5500
    224.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
    40.10 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 5500
    5196.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
    692.70 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better