NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs ATI Radeon HD 3730

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti ATI Radeon HD 3730

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Ti 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 GTX 980 Ti 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1076MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.6GB/s vs 12.67GB/s)

2696 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 3730 's Advantages

Lower TDP (65W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +3402%

6.06 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3730

0.173 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

VS

Radeon HD 3730

Graphics Card

Jun 2015

Release Date

Oct 2008

GeForce 900

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

-

1076 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

396 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

336.6GB/s

Bandwidth

12.67GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

3

2816

Shading Units

120

176

TMUs

8

96

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

3 MB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

103.3 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.888 GPixel/s

189.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.776 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

6.060 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

173.3 GFLOPS

189.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GM200

GPU Name

RV635

GM200-310-A1

GPU Variant

RV635 PRO (215-0682008)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

8 billion

Transistors

0.378 billion

601 mm²

Die Size

135 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

65W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

4.1

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