In terms of overall gaming performance, the graphical capabilities of the Nvidia GeForce GT 730 v3 Gigabyte 2GB Edition are significantly better than the AMD Radeon X850 XT Platinum.

The GT 730 was released over three years more recently than the X850 XT, and so the GT 730 is likely to have far better driver support, meaning it will be much more optimized and ultimately superior to the X850 XT when running the latest games.

The GT 730 has 1792 MB more video memory than the X850 XT, so is likely to be much better at displaying game textures at higher resolutions. However, overall, the X850 XT has superior memory performance.

The X850 XT has 46.7 GB/sec greater memory bandwidth than the GT 730, which means that the memory performance of the X850 XT is noticeably better than the GT 730.

The GeForce GT 730 v3 Gigabyte 2GB Edition has 96 Shader Processing Units and the Radeon X850 XT Platinum has 16. However, the actual shader performance of the GT 730 is 134 and the actual shader performance of the X850 XT is 6. The GT 730 having 128 better shader performance is not particularly notable, as altogether the X850 XT performs better when taking into account other relevant data.

The GeForce GT 730 v3 Gigabyte 2GB Edition requires 49 Watts to run but there is no entry for the Radeon X850 XT Platinum. We would recommend a PSU with at least 300 Watts for the GT 730.