NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512 vs ATI Radeon HD 3730

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512

ATI Radeon HD 3730

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 7800 GTX 512 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 7800 GTX 512 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.20GB/s vs 12.67GB/s)

ATI Radeon HD 3730 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 11 months late

120 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (65W vs 108W)

Score

GeForce 7800 GTX 512

VS

Radeon HD 3730

Graphics Card

Nov 2005

Release Date

Oct 2008

GeForce 7 PCIe

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

396 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

51.20GB/s

Bandwidth

12.67GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

3

-

Shading Units

120

24

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

8.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.888 GPixel/s

12.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.776 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

173.3 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

108W

TDP

65W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G70

GPU Name

RV635

GF-7800-GTX-512-A2

GPU Variant

RV635 PRO (215-0682008)

Curie

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

110 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.302 billion

Transistors

0.378 billion

333 mm²

Die Size

135 mm²

Graphics Features

9.0c (9_3)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

2.1

OpenGL

3.3

N/A

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

3.0

Shader Model

4.1

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