NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 vs AMD Radeon 520

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 2 GB vs AMD Radeon 520 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 37.16
$ 310.84 significantly less expensive
$ 348.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

204 points
213 points
4% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

5 FPS
5 FPS
0 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

3 FPS
Identical
3 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

3 FPS
4 FPS
1 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

2 FPS
1 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
1 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

3690 points
6870 points
86% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

3447 points
6539 points
89% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

3630 points
6179 points
70% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

3735 points
5421 points
45% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1253 MHz
21% slightly higher boost clock speed
1030 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

2 GiB
4 GiB
100% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit
100% significantly larger memory bus width
64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

28.8 GB/s
48 GB/s
66% significantly higher memory bandwidth

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

2.8 Gigapixels/s
4.1 Gigapixels/s
46% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

11.2 Gigatexels/s
20.6 Gigatexels/s
83% significantly higher texture rate

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

16
20
25% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

4
Identical
4

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

431st of 586
422nd of 586

Family

The product line

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Radeon 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 April
2017 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
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OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
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GeForce GT 730 vs Radeon 520 specs and performance

For gaming, the Radeon 520 graphics card is better than the GeForce GT 730 in our tests.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Radeon 520 has significantly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon 520 over the GeForce GT 730.

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