ATI Radeon HD 3730 vs AMD Radeon RX 480

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3730 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 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 RX 480 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1266MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 12.67GB/s)

2184 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 3730

0.173 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 480 +3272%

5.834 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3730

VS

Radeon RX 480

Graphics Card

Oct 2008

Release Date

Jun 2016

Radeon R600

Generation

Arctic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1120 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1266 MHz

396 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

8GB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

12.67GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

3

Compute Units

36

120

Shading Units

2304

8

TMUs

144

4

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

2.888 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

40.51 GPixel/s

5.776 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

182.3 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

5.834 TFLOPS

173.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.834 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

364.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

RV635

GPU Name

Ellesmere

RV635 PRO (215-0682008)

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

TeraScale

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

55 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.378 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

135 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

65W

TDP

150W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

4.1

Shader Model

6.4

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