Radeon RX 6500 XT vs GeForce GT 730 GDDR5

Radeon RX 6500 XT
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR6DESKTOP
Release date: 19 Jan 2022
Radeon RX 6500 XT
GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Jun 2014
GeForce GT 730 GDDR5

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 6500 XT

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Infinity Cache allows to deliver up to 3.25x the effective memory bandwidth
Supports DirectX Raytracing (DXR)

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 730 GDDR5

69 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon RX 6500 XT .
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GT 730 GDDR5

HWBench recommends GeForce GT 730 GDDR5

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX 6500 XTGeForce GT 730 GDDR5
GPU NameNavi 24 (Navi 24 XT)vsGK208 ()
Fab Process6 nmvs28 nm
Die Size107 mm²vs87 mm²
Transistors5,400 millionvsunknown
Shaders1024vs384
Compute Units16vs2
Core clock2200 MHzvs902 MHz
ROPs32vs8
TMUs64vs16

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 6500 XTGeForce GT 730 GDDR5
Memory TypeGDDR6vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed2250 MHz
18 Gbps effective
vs1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 6500 XTGeForce GT 730 GDDR5
TDP107 wattsvs38 watts
Release Date19 Jan 2022vs18 Jun 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 6500 XT
    90.08 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
    7.22 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 6500 XT
    180.20 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
    14.43 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 6500 XT
    144.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
    40.10 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 6500 XT
    5765.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
    692.70 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better