AMD Radeon R9 285X vs ATI Radeon HD 3730

VS

AMD Radeon R9 285X

ATI Radeon HD 3730

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 285X and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3730 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 285X 's Advantages

More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 12.67GB/s)

1928 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 3730 's Advantages

Lower TDP (65W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 285X +2272%

4.104 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3730

0.173 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 285X

VS

Radeon HD 3730

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Oct 2008

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

396 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

12.67GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

3

-

2048

Shading Units

120

128

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

32.06 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.888 GPixel/s

128.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.776 GTexel/s

-

4.104 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

173.3 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

200W

TDP

65W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Tonga

GPU Name

RV635

Tonga XT (215-0851313)

GPU Variant

RV635 PRO (215-0682008)

GCN 3.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

5 billion

Transistors

0.378 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

135 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.3

Shader Model

4.1

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