ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 vs ATI Radeon HD 3730

VS

ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 ATI Radeon HD 3730

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 X2 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3730 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 's Advantages

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 12.67GB/s)

680 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 3730 's Advantages

Lower TDP (65W vs 286W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 4870 X2 +593%

1.2 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3730

0.173 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870 X2

VS

Radeon HD 3730

Graphics Card

Aug 2008

Release Date

Oct 2008

Radeon R700

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

396 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

12.67GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

10

Compute Units

3

800

Shading Units

120

40

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

12.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.888 GPixel/s

30.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.776 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1200 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

173.3 GFLOPS

240.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

R700

GPU Name

RV635

R700 XT (215-0669045)

GPU Variant

RV635 PRO (215-0682008)

TeraScale

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.956 billion

Transistors

0.378 billion

256 mm²

Die Size

135 mm²

Board Design

286W

TDP

65W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

4.1

Shader Model

4.1

Related GPU Comparisons

1

AMD FirePro W7100 vs ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2

2

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 vs ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2

3

ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450

4

NVIDIA GeForce 9300 GS vs ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2

5

ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti

6

ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 vs AMD Radeon RX 580 OEM

7

ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 vs ATI Radeon X1950 XTX Uber Edition

8

ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 vs ATI Radeon HD 4710

9

ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 vs AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

10

ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 vs AMD Radeon RX 7950 XT

Related News

1

Intel Arrow Lake-S Features Dual Direct M.2 Slots: One PCIe 5.0 x4 and One PCIe 4.0 x4

2

AMD Ryzen 9000X3D Series to Feature Fully Unlocked Overclocking; DDR5-6400: The 'Sweet Spot' for Zen 5 Memory Speeds

3

Intel Z890 Motherboard Specs Leaked: Farewell to DDR4 Memory

4

AMD Ryzen 9000 Series Now Available for Pre-order in Europe: 9950X Priced at €660, Shipping by August 2

5

AMD's Latest Breakthrough Technology Could Change the Game in the Future

6

Researchers Utilize NVIDIA Omniverse Platform to Analyze and Improve 3D Stacked Chip Designs

7

TSMC to Receive Over 60 EUV Lithography Machines Over the Next Two Years, Investing More Than $12.3 Billion

8

Samsung's Own 3nm Yield is Disheartening: Galaxy S25 May Introduce MediaTek for the First Time

9

AMD Ryzen 9000 DDR5 Memory Frequency Soars: Reaches 8000MHz with All Four Slots Occupied

10

Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 to Feature Frame Interpolation for GPU: A Game-Changing Experience