ATI Radeon HD 3730 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

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ATI Radeon HD 3730 NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3730 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 3730 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 1 months late

88 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (65W vs 75W)

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (32.26GB/s vs 12.67GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 3730 +86%

0.173 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3730

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GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Oct 2008

Release Date

Sep 2007

Radeon R600

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

396 MHz

Memory Clock

1008 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

12.67GB/s

Bandwidth

32.26GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

3

Compute Units

-

120

Shading Units

32

8

TMUs

16

4

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

-

128 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

2.888 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.400 GPixel/s

5.776 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.80 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

173.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

92.80 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

RV635

GPU Name

G84

RV635 PRO (215-0682008)

GPU Variant

G84-400-A2

TeraScale

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.378 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

135 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Board Design

65W

TDP

75W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

N/A

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

4.1

Shader Model

4.0

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