Radeon HD 3850 AGP vs GeForce GT 730

Radeon HD 3850 AGP
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 3 Jan 2008
Radeon HD 3850 AGP
GeForce GT 730
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Jun 2014
GeForce GT 730

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 3850 AGP

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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 730

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 3850 AGP

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 3850 AGP

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 3850 AGPGeForce GT 730
GPU NameRV670 (RV670 PRO)vsGF108 (GF108-400-A1)
Fab Process55 nmvs40 nm
Die Size192 mm²vs116 mm²
Transistors666 millionvs585 million
Shaders320vs96
Compute Units4vs2
Core clock668 MHzvs700 MHz
ROPs16vs4
TMUs16vs16

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 3850 AGPGeForce GT 730
Memory TypeGDDR3vsDDR3
Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed828 MHz
1656 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 3850 AGPGeForce GT 730
TDP75 wattsvs49 watts
Release Date3 Jan 2008vs18 Jun 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 3850 AGP
    10.70 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 730
    2.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 3850 AGP
    10.70 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 730
    11.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 3850 AGP
    53.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 730
    28.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 3850 AGP
    427.50 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 730
    268.80 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better