AMD Radeon RX 480 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 730

Compare AMD Radeon RX 480 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 2 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 730

Price

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$ 1668.98

$ 37.16

$ 1631.82 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2142 points

950% significantly better overall score

204 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

44 FPS

40 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

5 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

33 FPS

30 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

3 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

45 FPS

42 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

3 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

17 FPS

15 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

2 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4130 points

1290% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

297 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

349.71 points

774% significantly higher Blender score

40.01 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

42415 points

2094% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

1933 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

44522 points

1106% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

3690 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

48947 points

1319% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

3447 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

51028 points

2272% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

2151 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

42732 points

1077% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

3630 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

49182 points

1216% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

3735 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1266 MHz

40% slightly higher core clock speed

902 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1266 MHz

1% slightly higher boost clock speed

1253 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

300% significantly more memory

2 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224 GB/s

677% significantly higher memory bandwidth

28.8 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W

49 W

206% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

40.51 Gigapixels/s

1346% significantly higher pixel rate

2.8 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

182.3 Gigatexels/s

1527% significantly higher texture rate

11.2 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304

2299% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

800% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

700% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

199th of 586

427th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 400 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 June

2015 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

4.5

4.6

Radeon RX 480 vs GeForce GT 730 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 480 beats the GeForce GT 730 in gaming performance.

The Radeon RX 480 has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the Radeon RX 480 also 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Radeon RX 480 has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GT 730 has a significantly lower TDP at 49 W when compared to the Radeon RX 480 at 150 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 480 over the GeForce GT 730.