GeForce 9800 GT vs Radeon HD 3730
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GT and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3730 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce 9800 GT 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.60GB/s vs 12.67GB/s)
Radeon HD 3730 's Advantages
8 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (65W vs 125W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9800 GT
+94%
336
Radeon HD 3730
173
Graphics Card
Jul 2008
Release Date
Oct 2008
GeForce 9
Generation
Radeon R600
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
900 MHz
Memory Clock
396 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR2
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
57.60GB/s
Bandwidth
12.67GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
3
14
SM Count
-
112
Shading Units
120
56
TMUs
8
16
ROPs
4
64 KB
L2 Cache
128 KB
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.888 GPixel/s
33.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
5.776 GTexel/s
336.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
173.3 GFLOPS
Board Design
125W
TDP
65W
300 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G92B
GPU Name
RV635
G92-280-B1
GPU Variant
RV635 PRO
(215-0682008)
Tesla
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
55 nm
0.754 billion
Transistors
0.378 billion
260 mm²
Die Size
135 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
4.1
