ATI Radeon HD 3850 X3 vs GeForce 8800 GTS 512

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking990not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.04no data
Power efficiency0.74no data
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code nameG92RV670
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date11 December 2007 (17 years ago)no data
Launch price (MSRP)$349 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores128320
Core clock speed650 MHz669 MHz
Number of transistors754 million666 million
Manufacturing process technology65 nm55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)135 Watt145 Watt
Texture fill rate41.6010.70
Floating-point processing power0.416 TFLOPSno data
ROPs1616
TMUs6416

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Length254 mm292 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin1x 8-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR3GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount512 MB512 MB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed820 MHz1700 MBps
Memory bandwidth52.48 GB/s54.4 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-Video4x DVI

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX11.1 (10_0)10.1 (10_1)
Shader Model4.04.1
OpenGL3.33.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)
OpenCL1.1N/A
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA1.1-

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 65 nm 55 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 135 Watt 145 Watt

8800 GTS 512 has 7.4% lower power consumption.

ATI HD 3850 X3, on the other hand, has a 18.2% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce 8800 GTS 512 and Radeon HD 3850 X3. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512
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