Radeon HD 3730 and GeForce 9600 GTX - video card comparison
Radeon HD 3730
GeForce 9600 GTX
Architecture
TeraScale (2005−2013)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
RV635
G92
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2008
May 2009
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 6-pin
Core clock speed
722 MHz
580 MHz
Floating-point performance
173.28 gflops
278.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
378 million
754 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
120
96
Power consumption (TDP)
65 Watt
140 Watt
Texture fill rate
5.776
27.84
Memory type
DDR2
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
792 MHz
1400 MHz
Memory bandwidth
12.67 GB/s
44.8 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
1.1
OpenGL
3.3
3.3
Shader Model
4.1
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A