Radeon HD 3730 vs GeForce 9600 GSO 512

Radeon HD 3730
Memory: 512Mb DDR2DESKTOP
Release date: 5 Oct 2008
Radeon HD 3730
GeForce 9600 GSO 512
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 23 Oct 2008
GeForce 9600 GSO 512
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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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 512

Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

No clear winner declared

We have no data to declare a winner at this time.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 3730GeForce 9600 GSO 512
GPU NameRV635 (RV635 PRO)vsG94 (G94-300-A1)
Fab Process55 nmvs65 nm
Die Size135 mm²vs240 mm²
Transistors378 millionvs505 million
Shaders120vs48
Compute Units3vs3
Core clock722 MHzvs650 MHz
ROPs4vs16
TMUs8vs24

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 3730GeForce 9600 GSO 512
Memory TypeDDR2vsGDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed396 MHz
792 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs512 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 3730GeForce 9600 GSO 512
TDP65 wattsvs90 watts
Release Date5 Oct 2008vs23 Oct 2008

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 3730
    2.89 GP/s
  • GeForce 9600 GSO 512
    10.40 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 3730
    5.78 GT/s
  • GeForce 9600 GSO 512
    15.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 3730
    12.70 GB/s
  • GeForce 9600 GSO 512
    57.60 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 3730
    173.30 GFLOPs
  • GeForce 9600 GSO 512
    156.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better