GeForce RTX 3060 vs Radeon HD 3730
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3730 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages
Released 12 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock1777MHz
More VRAM (12GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 12.67GB/s)
3464 additional rendering cores
Radeon HD 3730 's Advantages
Lower TDP (65W vs 170W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3060
+7264%
12740
Radeon HD 3730
173
Graphics Card
Jan 2021
Release Date
Oct 2008
GeForce 30
Generation
Radeon R600
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1320 MHz
Base Clock
-
1777 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1875 MHz
Memory Clock
396 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
DDR2
192bit
Memory Bus
128bit
360.0GB/s
Bandwidth
12.67GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
3
28
SM Count
-
3584
Shading Units
120
112
TMUs
8
48
ROPs
4
112
Tensor Cores
-
28
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
3 MB
L2 Cache
128 KB
Theoretical Performance
85.30 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.888 GPixel/s
199.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
5.776 GTexel/s
12.74 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
12.74 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
173.3 GFLOPS
199.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
170W
TDP
65W
450 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 12-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GA106
GPU Name
RV635
GA106-300-A1
GPU Variant
RV635 PRO
(215-0682008)
Ampere
Architecture
TeraScale
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
55 nm
12 billion
Transistors
0.378 billion
276 mm²
Die Size
135 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
N/A
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
8.6
CUDA
-
6.6
Shader Model
4.1