Radeon RX 580 vs GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
Summary
Reasons to consider Radeon RX 580 |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 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 580 . |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon RX 580
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| Radeon RX 580 | | GeForce GT 730 GDDR5 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | Ellesmere (Ellesmere XT) | vs | GK208 () |
| Fab Process | 14 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 232 mm² | vs | 87 mm² |
| Transistors | 5,700 million | vs | unknown |
| Shaders | 2304 | vs | 384 |
| Compute Units | 36 | vs | 2 |
| Core clock | 1120 MHz | vs | 902 MHz |
| ROPs | 32 | vs | 8 |
| TMUs | 144 | vs | 16 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon RX 580 | | GeForce GT 730 GDDR5 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 256 bit | vs | 64 bit |
| Memory Speed | 2000 MHz
8000 MHz effective | vs | 1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 8192 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon RX 580 | | GeForce GT 730 GDDR5 | |
|---|
| TDP | 150 watts | vs | 38 watts |
| Release Date | 1 Apr 2017 | vs | 18 Jun 2014 |
Radeon RX 580
40.50 GP/s
GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
7.22 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon RX 580
182.30 GT/s
GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
14.43 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon RX 580
256.00 GB/s
GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
40.10 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon RX 580
5834.00 GFLOPs
GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
692.70 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better