Radeon RX Vega 56 vs GeForce GT 730 GDDR5

Radeon RX Vega 56
Memory: 8192Mb HBM2DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Aug 2017
Radeon RX Vega 56
GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Jun 2014
GeForce GT 730 GDDR5

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon RX Vega 56

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

172 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon RX Vega 56 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 Vega 56

HWBench recommends Radeon RX Vega 56

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX Vega 56GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
GPU NameVega 10 (Vega 10 XL)vsGK208 ()
Fab Process14 nmvs28 nm
Die Size484 mm²vs87 mm²
Transistors12,500 millionvsunknown
Shaders3584vs384
Compute Units56vs2
Core clock1156 MHzvs902 MHz
ROPs64vs8
TMUs224vs16

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX Vega 56GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
Memory TypeHBM2vsGDDR5
Bus Width2048 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed800 MHz
1600 MHz effective
vs1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective
Memory Size8192 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX Vega 56GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
TDP210 wattsvs38 watts
Release Date8 Aug 2017vs18 Jun 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX Vega 56
    94.14 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
    7.22 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX Vega 56
    329.50 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
    14.43 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX Vega 56
    409.60 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
    40.10 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX Vega 56
    10544.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
    692.70 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better