Radeon HD 3690 vs GeForce GT 440

Radeon HD 3690
Memory: 256Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 30 Mar 2008
Radeon HD 3690
GeForce GT 440
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Feb 2011
GeForce GT 440

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 3690

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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 440

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 3690

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 3690

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 3690GeForce GT 440
GPU NameRV670 (RV670 PRO)vsGF108 (GF108-400-A1)
Fab Process55 nmvs40 nm
Die Size192 mm²vs116 mm²
Transistors666 millionvs585 million
Shaders320vs96
Compute Units4vs2
Core clock670 MHzvs810 MHz
ROPs16vs4
TMUs16vs16

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 3690GeForce GT 440
Memory TypeGDDR3vsDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed830 MHz
1660 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size256 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 3690GeForce GT 440
TDP75 wattsvs65 watts
Release Date30 Mar 2008vs1 Feb 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 3690
    10.70 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 440
    3.24 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 3690
    10.70 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 440
    13.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 3690
    26.60 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 440
    28.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 3690
    428.80 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 440
    311.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better