NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2 vs ATI Radeon HD 3730

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2

ATI Radeon HD 3730

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GX2 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 9800 GX2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 12.67GB/s)

8 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 3730 's Advantages

Released 7 months late

Lower TDP (65W vs 197W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9800 GX2 +121%

0.384 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3730

0.173 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800 GX2

VS

Radeon HD 3730

Graphics Card

Mar 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

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

396 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

12.67GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

3

16

SM Count

-

128

Shading Units

120

64

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

64 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

9.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.888 GPixel/s

38.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.776 GTexel/s

-

384.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

173.3 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

197W

TDP

65W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G92

GPU Name

RV635

G92-450-A2

GPU Variant

RV635 PRO (215-0682008)

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

0.378 billion

324 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

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

4.1

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