NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 vs AMD Radeon 550

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 2 GB vs AMD Radeon 550, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon 550

Price

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$ 37.16

$ 161.84 significantly less expensive

$ 199.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

204 points

37% slightly better overall score

148 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

5 FPS

8 FPS

3 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

3 FPS

4 FPS

1 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

3 FPS

8 FPS

4 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

2 FPS

2 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

0 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

3690 points

12413 points

236% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

3447 points

11360 points

229% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

3630 points

10272 points

182% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

3735 points

11360 points

204% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

902 MHz

1100 MHz

21% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1253 MHz

5% slightly higher boost clock speed

1183 MHz

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

56 GB/s

94% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

49 W

2% slightly lower TDP

50 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

2.8 Gigapixels/s

18.93 Gigapixels/s

576% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

11.2 Gigatexels/s

37.86 Gigatexels/s

238% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

512

433% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

100% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

300% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

430th of 586

473rd of 586

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

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce GT 730 vs Radeon 550 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GT 730 GPU is faster than the Radeon 550 in gaming.

Our database shows that the Radeon 550 has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. Despite this, the GeForce GT 730 has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, the GeForce GT 730 has a slightly lower TDP at 49 W when compared to the Radeon 550 at 50 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GT 730 over the Radeon 550.