NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 vs AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 2 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT 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
$ 222.83 significantly less expensive
$ 259.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

204 points
3023 points
1381% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

5 FPS
64 FPS
59 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

3 FPS
46 FPS
43 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

3 FPS
56 FPS
53 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

2 FPS
26 FPS
23 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

297 points
4965 points
1571% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

40.01 points
422.78 points
956% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

3690 points
52512 points
1323% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

3447 points
39991 points
1060% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

3630 points
50916 points
1302% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

3735 points
59288 points
1487% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

902 MHz
2310 MHz
156% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1253 MHz
2815 MHz
124% significantly higher boost clock speed

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
144 GB/s
400% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

49 W
118% significantly lower TDP
107 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

2.8 Gigapixels/s
90.1 Gigapixels/s
3117% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

11.2 Gigatexels/s
180.2 Gigatexels/s
1508% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

96
1024
966% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

16
64
300% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

4
32
700% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

432nd of 586
154th of 586

Family

The product line

-
Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 April
2022 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

GeForce GT 730 vs Radeon RX 6500 XT comparison

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 6500 XT beats the GeForce GT 730 in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 6500 XT has a significantly 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. In addition, the Radeon RX 6500 XT also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Radeon RX 6500 XT 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 addition, the GeForce GT 730 has a significantly lower TDP at 49 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6500 XT at 107 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 6500 XT over the GeForce GT 730.

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