Radeon HD 3730 vs Radeon HD 7350 PCI

Radeon HD 3730
Memory: 512Mb DDR2DESKTOP
Release date: 5 Oct 2008
Radeon HD 3730
Radeon HD 7350 PCI
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 5 Jan 2012
Radeon HD 7350 PCI

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 3730

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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 Radeon HD 7350 PCI

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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 3730

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 3730

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 3730Radeon HD 7350 PCI
GPU NameRV635 (RV635 PRO)vsCedar ()
Fab Process55 nmvs40 nm
Die Size135 mm²vs59 mm²
Transistors378 millionvs292 million
Shaders120vs80
Compute Units3vs2
Core clock722 MHzvs650 MHz
ROPs4vs4
TMUs8vs8

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 3730Radeon HD 7350 PCI
Memory TypeDDR2vsGDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed396 MHz
792 MHz effective
vs500 MHz
1000 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs512 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 3730Radeon HD 7350 PCI
TDP65 wattsvs19 watts
Release Date5 Oct 2008vs5 Jan 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 3730
    2.89 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 7350 PCI
    2.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 3730
    5.78 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 7350 PCI
    5.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 3730
    12.70 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 7350 PCI
    8.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 3730
    173.30 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 7350 PCI
    104.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better