ATI Radeon HD 3850: specs and benchmarks

Summary

ATI started Radeon HD 3850 sales 19 November 2007 at a recommended price of $179. This is a TeraScale architecture desktop card based on 55 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use. 1 GB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 1.66 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 53.12 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is single-slot card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 208 mm. 1x 6-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 75 Watt.

General info

Some basic facts about Radeon HD 3850: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance rating	957
Value for money	0.37
Architecture	TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name	RV670
Market segment	Desktop
Release date	19 November 2007 (15 years old)
Launch price (MSRP)	$179
Current price	$30 (0.2x MSRP)	of 49999 (A100 SXM4)

Technical specs

Radeon HD 3850's general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon HD 3850's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	320	of 18432 (AD102)
Core clock speed	668 MHz	of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Number of transistors	666 million	of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	of 4 (GeForce RTX 4080 Ti)
Thermal design power (TDP)	75 Watt	of 900 (Tesla S2050)
Texture fill rate	10.69	of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)
Floating-point performance	427.5 gflops	of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Information on Radeon HD 3850's 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).

Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	208 mm
Width	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on Radeon HD 3850: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory type	GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	of 128 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory bus width	256 Bit	of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	1660 MHz	of 22400 (GeForce RTX 4080)
Memory bandwidth	53.12 GB/s	of 14400 (Radeon R7 M260)

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon HD 3850. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

API support

APIs supported by Radeon HD 3850, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX	10.1 (10_1)
Shader Model	4.1
OpenGL	3.3	of 4.6 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile)
OpenCL	N/A
Vulkan	N/A

Benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark performance of Radeon HD 3850. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.

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Overall score

This is our combined benchmark performance rating. 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.

Is Radeon HD 3850 good for gaming?

Let's see how good Radeon HD 3850 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Relative perfomance

Overall Radeon HD 3850 performance compared to nearest competitors among desktop video cards.

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