Graphics card comparison
Radeon HD 3730 vs GeForce GT 710 (Fermi)
AMD
Radeon HD 3730
512 Mb DDR2
Released 5 Oct 2008
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VS
Nvidia
GeForce GT 710 (Fermi)
1024 Mb DDR3
Released 22 Aug 2014
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Summary
Reasons to consider the 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- Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 the GeForce GT 710 (Fermi)
- 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- Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications
Our verdict
HWSpot recommends the Radeon HD 3730
Based on theoretical specifications.
Specifications
Core configuration
| Radeon HD 3730 | GeForce GT 710 (Fermi) |
|---|
| GPU Name | RV635 (RV635 PRO) | GF119 (GF119-300-A1) |
| Fab Process | 55 nm | 40 nm |
| Die Size | 135 mm² | 79 mm² |
| Transistors | 378 million | 292 million |
| Shaders | 120 | 48 |
| Compute Units | 3 | 1 |
| Core clock | 722 MHz | 810 MHz |
| ROPs | 4 | 4 |
| TMUs | 8 | 8 |
Memory configuration
| Radeon HD 3730 | GeForce GT 710 (Fermi) |
|---|
| Memory Type | DDR2 | DDR3 |
| Bus Width | 128 bit | 64 bit |
| Memory Speed | 396 MHz
792 MHz effective | 898 MHz
1796 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 512 Mb | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 3730 | GeForce GT 710 (Fermi) |
|---|
| TDP | 65 watts | 29 watts |
| Release Date | 5 Oct 2008 | 22 Aug 2014 |
Raw performance comparison
Pixel Rate
- Radeon HD 37302.89 GP/s
- GeForce GT 710 (Fermi)1.62 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Texel Rate
- Radeon HD 37305.78 GT/s
- GeForce GT 710 (Fermi)6.48 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Memory bandwidth
- Radeon HD 373012.70 GB/s
- GeForce GT 710 (Fermi)14.37 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Single precision performance
- Radeon HD 3730173.30 GFLOPs
- GeForce GT 710 (Fermi)155.52 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better