ATI Radeon HD 3730 vs AMD Radeon R9 270

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3730 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 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 150W)

AMD Radeon R9 270 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock925MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 12.67GB/s)

1160 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 3730

0.173 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270 +1268%

2.368 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3730

VS

Radeon R9 270

Graphics Card

Oct 2008

Release Date

Nov 2013

Radeon R600

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

900 MHz

-

Boost Clock

925 MHz

396 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

12.67GB/s

Bandwidth

179.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

3

Compute Units

20

120

Shading Units

1280

8

TMUs

80

4

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

2.888 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

5.776 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

74.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

173.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.368 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

148.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

RV635

GPU Name

Curacao

RV635 PRO (215-0682008)

GPU Variant

Curacao PRO (215-0848000)

TeraScale

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.378 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

135 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

65W

TDP

150W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

4.1

Shader Model

5.1

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