Radeon HD 3470 vs Radeon HD 3730

Radeon HD 3470
Memory: 256Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 23 Jan 2008
Radeon HD 3470
Radeon HD 3730
Memory: 512Mb DDR2DESKTOP
Release date: 5 Oct 2008
Radeon HD 3730

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 3470

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 3730

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 3730

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 3730

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 3470Radeon HD 3730
GPU NameRV620 (RV620 PRO)vsRV635 (RV635 PRO)
Fab Process55 nmvs55 nm
Die Size67 mm²vs135 mm²
Transistors181 millionvs378 million
Shaders40vs120
Compute Units2vs3
Core clock800 MHzvs722 MHz
ROPs4vs4
TMUs4vs8

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 3470Radeon HD 3730
Memory TypeGDDR3vsDDR2
Bus Width64 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed950 MHz
1900 MHz effective
vs396 MHz
792 MHz effective
Memory Size256 Mbvs512 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 3470Radeon HD 3730
TDP30 wattsvs65 watts
Release Date23 Jan 2008vs5 Oct 2008

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 3470
    3.20 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 3730
    2.89 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 3470
    3.20 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 3730
    5.78 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 3470
    15.20 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 3730
    12.70 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 3470
    64.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 3730
    173.30 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better