NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 vs ATI Radeon HD 3730

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 ATI Radeon HD 3730

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 430 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 GT 430 's Advantages

Released 2 years late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (12.80GB/s vs 12.67GB/s)

Lower TDP (49W vs 65W)

ATI Radeon HD 3730 's Advantages

24 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 430 +55%

0.269 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3730

0.173 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 430

VS

Radeon HD 3730

Graphics Card

Oct 2010

Release Date

Oct 2008

GeForce 400

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

396 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR3

Memory Type

DDR2

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

12.67GB/s

Render Config

2

SM Count

-

Compute Units

3

96

Shading Units

120

16

TMUs

8

4

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

128 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

2.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.888 GPixel/s

11.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.776 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

268.8 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

173.3 GFLOPS

22.40 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GF108

GPU Name

RV635

GF108-300-A1

GPU Variant

RV635 PRO (215-0682008)

Fermi

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.585 billion

Transistors

0.378 billion

116 mm²

Die Size

135 mm²

Board Design

49W

TDP

65W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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