ATI Radeon HD 3730 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2

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ATI Radeon HD 3730 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3730 and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 3730 's Advantages

Lower TDP (65W vs 171W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2 's Advantages

More VRAM (896GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.9GB/s vs 12.67GB/s)

96 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 3730

0.173 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2 +209%

0.536 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3730

VS

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2

Graphics Card

Oct 2008

Release Date

Nov 2008

Radeon R600

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

396 MHz

Memory Clock

999 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

896MB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

448bit

12.67GB/s

Bandwidth

111.9GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

27

3

Compute Units

-

120

Shading Units

216

8

TMUs

72

4

ROPs

28

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

-

128 KB

L2 Cache

224 KB

Theoretical Performance

2.888 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.13 GPixel/s

5.776 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

41.47 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

173.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

536.5 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

67.07 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

RV635

GPU Name

GT200B

RV635 PRO (215-0682008)

GPU Variant

G200-103-B2

TeraScale

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.378 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

135 mm²

Die Size

470 mm²

Board Design

65W

TDP

171W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

2x 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

1.3

4.1

Shader Model

4.0

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