GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Mobile vs ATI Radeon HD 3830

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated53
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data30.77
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameRV670GA103S
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date1 April 2008 (16 years ago)25 January 2022 (2 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 cores3207424
Core clock speed668 MHz810 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1260 MHz
Number of transistors666 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology55 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Watt115 Watt
Texture fill rate10.69292.3
Floating-point processing power0.4275 TFLOPS18.71 TFLOPS
ROPs1696
TMUs16232
Tensor Coresno data232
Ray Tracing Coresno data58

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).

Laptop sizeno datalarge
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinno data

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 typeGDDR3GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount256 MB16 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed828 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth26.5 GB/s512.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.1 (10_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model4.16.5
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCLN/A3.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 April 2008 25 January 2022
Maximum RAM amount 256 MB 16 GB
Chip lithography 55 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 75 Watt 115 Watt

ATI HD 3830 has 53.3% lower power consumption.

RTX 3080 Ti Mobile, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 13 years, a 6300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 587.5% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 3830 and GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 3830 is a desktop card while GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Mobile is a notebook one.


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