Radeon HD 3730 vs Radeon HD 6850
Summary
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 3730 |
| 62 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 6850 . |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6850 |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon HD 6850
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 3730 | | Radeon HD 6850 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | RV635 (RV635 PRO) | vs | Barts (Barts PRO) |
| Fab Process | 55 nm | vs | 40 nm |
| Die Size | 135 mm² | vs | 255 mm² |
| Transistors | 378 million | vs | 1,700 million |
| Shaders | 120 | vs | 960 |
| Compute Units | 3 | vs | 12 |
| Core clock | 722 MHz | vs | 775 MHz |
| ROPs | 4 | vs | 32 |
| TMUs | 8 | vs | 48 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 3730 | | Radeon HD 6850 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | DDR2 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 128 bit | vs | 256 bit |
| Memory Speed | 396 MHz
792 MHz effective | vs | 1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 512 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 3730 | | Radeon HD 6850 | |
|---|
| TDP | 65 watts | vs | 127 watts |
| Release Date | 5 Oct 2008 | vs | 21 Oct 2010 |
Radeon HD 3730
2.89 GP/s
Radeon HD 6850
24.80 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon HD 3730
5.78 GT/s
Radeon HD 6850
37.20 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon HD 3730
12.70 GB/s
Radeon HD 6850
128.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon HD 3730
173.30 GFLOPs
Radeon HD 6850
1488.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better