Intel HD Graphics 3000 vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850

General info

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

Place in performance ranking	1094	1091
Place by popularity	no data	65
Architecture	RV6xx (2007−2010)	Gen. 6 Sandy Bridge (2011)
GPU code name	M88	Sandy Bridge
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Release date	1 December 2007 (15 years old)	1 February 2011 (12 years old)
Current price	no data	$476

Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	320	12
Core clock speed	580 MHz	350 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	1350 MHz
Number of transistors	666 million	995 million
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	32 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	55 Watt	unknown
Texture fill rate	9.280	13.80
Floating-point performance	371.2 gflops	20.4 gflops

Size and compatibility

Information on Mobility Radeon HD 3850 and HD Graphics 3000 compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop size	large	no data
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16

Memory

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

Memory type	GDDR3	System Shared
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	System Shared
Memory bus width	256 Bit	64/128 Bit
Memory clock speed	750 MHz	System Shared
Memory bandwidth	48 GB/s	no data
Shared memory	-	+

Video outputs and ports

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 Connectors

No outputs

No outputs

API support

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

DirectX	10.1 (10_1)	11.1 (10_1)
Shader Model	4.1	4.1
OpenGL	3.3	3.1
OpenCL	N/A	N/A
Vulkan	N/A	N/A

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark performance comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

Full HD

no data

9

Performance in popular games

Advantages and disadvantages

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Recency	1 December 2007	1 February 2011
Memory bus width	256	64
Pipelines / CUDA cores	320	12
Chip lithography	55 nm	32 nm

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