NVIDIA GeForce 6800 vs ATI Radeon HD 3730

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 6800

ATI Radeon HD 3730

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 6800 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3730 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 6800 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (19.20GB/s vs 12.67GB/s)

ATI Radeon HD 3730 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)

120 additional rendering cores

Score

GeForce 6800

VS

Radeon HD 3730

Graphics Card

Nov 2004

Release Date

Oct 2008

GeForce 6 PCIe

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

300 MHz

Memory Clock

396 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

19.20GB/s

Bandwidth

12.67GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

3

-

Shading Units

120

12

TMUs

8

ROPs

4

-

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.888 GPixel/s

3.900 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.776 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

173.3 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

65W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

NV41

GPU Name

RV635

-

GPU Variant

RV635 PRO (215-0682008)

Curie

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

130 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.19 billion

Transistors

0.378 billion

225 mm²

Die Size

135 mm²

Graphics Features

9.0c (9_3)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

OpenGL

3.3

N/A

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

3.0

Shader Model

4.1

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