Radeon HD 3730 vs GeForce GT 710

Radeon HD 3730
Memory: 512Mb DDR2DESKTOP
Release date: 5 Oct 2008
Radeon HD 3730
GeForce GT 710
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 27 Mar 2014
GeForce GT 710

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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 GT 710

46 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 3730 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GT 710

HWBench recommends GeForce GT 710

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 3730GeForce GT 710
GPU NameRV635 (RV635 PRO)vsGK208 ()
Fab Process55 nmvs28 nm
Die Size135 mm²vs87 mm²
Transistors378 millionvsunknown
Shaders120vs192
Compute Units3vs1
Core clock722 MHzvs954 MHz
ROPs4vs8
TMUs8vs16

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 3730GeForce GT 710
Memory TypeDDR2vsDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed396 MHz
792 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 3730GeForce GT 710
TDP65 wattsvs19 watts
Release Date5 Oct 2008vs27 Mar 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 3730
    2.89 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 710
    3.82 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 3730
    5.78 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 710
    15.26 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 3730
    12.70 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 710
    14.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 3730
    173.30 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 710
    366.30 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better