Radeon HD 3730 vs GeForce 9600 GSO
Summary
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 3730 |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider GeForce 9600 GSO |
| Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
| PhysX support, however PhysX performance on newest games may be poor |
HWBench recommends GeForce 9600 GSO
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 3730 | | GeForce 9600 GSO | |
|---|
| GPU Name | RV635 (RV635 PRO) | vs | G92 () |
| Fab Process | 55 nm | vs | 65 nm |
| Die Size | 135 mm² | vs | 324 mm² |
| Transistors | 378 million | vs | 754 million |
| Shaders | 120 | vs | 96 |
| Compute Units | 3 | vs | 6 |
| Core clock | 722 MHz | vs | 550 MHz |
| ROPs | 4 | vs | 12 |
| TMUs | 8 | vs | 48 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 3730 | | GeForce 9600 GSO | |
|---|
| Memory Type | DDR2 | vs | GDDR3 |
| Bus Width | 128 bit | vs | 192 bit |
| Memory Speed | 396 MHz
792 MHz effective | vs | 800 MHz
1600 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 512 Mb | vs | 384 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 3730 | | GeForce 9600 GSO | |
|---|
| TDP | 65 watts | vs | 84 watts |
| Release Date | 5 Oct 2008 | vs | 28 Apr 2008 |
Radeon HD 3730
2.89 GP/s
GeForce 9600 GSO
6.60 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon HD 3730
5.78 GT/s
GeForce 9600 GSO
26.40 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon HD 3730
12.70 GB/s
GeForce 9600 GSO
38.40 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon HD 3730
173.30 GFLOPs
GeForce 9600 GSO
264.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better