GeForce 7950 GT AGP vs ATI Radeon HD 3650

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code nameRV635G71
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date20 January 2008 (16 years ago)2 April 2007 (17 years ago)

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 cores120no data
Core clock speed725 MHz500 MHz
Number of transistors378 million278 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm90 nm
Power consumption (TDP)65 Watt65 Watt
Texture fill rate5.80012.00
Floating-point processing power0.174 TFLOPSno data
ROPs416
TMUs824

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 x16AGP 8x
Width1-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x Molex

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 amount256 MB512 MB
Memory bus width128 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz600 MHz
Memory bandwidth25.6 GB/s38.4 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-Video2x DVI, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.1 (10_1)9.0c (9_3)
Shader Model4.13.0
OpenGL3.32.1
OpenCLN/AN/A
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 20 January 2008 2 April 2007
Maximum RAM amount 256 MB 512 MB
Chip lithography 55 nm 90 nm

ATI HD 3650 has an age advantage of 9 months, and a 63.6% more advanced lithography process.

7950 GT AGP, on the other hand, has a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 3650 and GeForce 7950 GT AGP. We've got no test results to judge.


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