AMD Radeon R9 295X2 vs ATI Radeon HD 3730

VS

AMD Radeon R9 295X2

ATI Radeon HD 3730

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 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 295X2 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 12.67GB/s)

2696 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 3730 's Advantages

Lower TDP (65W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 295X2 +3213%

5.733 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3730

0.173 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 295X2

VS

Radeon HD 3730

Graphics Card

Apr 2014

Release Date

Oct 2008

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

396 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

12.67GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

3

-

2816

Shading Units

120

176

TMUs

8

64

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

65.15 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.888 GPixel/s

179.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.776 GTexel/s

-

5.733 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

173.3 GFLOPS

716.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

500W

TDP

65W

900 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Vesuvius

GPU Name

RV635

Vesuvius XT (215-0852022)

GPU Variant

RV635 PRO (215-0682008)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.378 billion

438 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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