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ATI Radeon HD 3850: specs and benchmarks

ATI Radeon HD 3850

Summary

ATI started Radeon HD 3850 sales 19 November 2007 at a recommended price of $179. This is TeraScale architecture desktop card based on 55 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use. 512 MB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 1.66 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 53.1 GB / s.

Compatibility-wise, this is 1-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.

It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 3.07 percent of a leader's which is NVIDIA TITAN V.

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General info

Of Radeon HD 3850's architecture, market type and release date.
Place in performance rating
673
 
Architecture
TeraScale
 
Code name
RV670
 
Type
Desktop
 
Release date
19 November 2007
 
Launch price (MSRP)
$179
 
of 14999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Technical specs

Radeon HD 3850's general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core 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
320
 
of 8192 (Radeon Pro Duo)
Core clock speed
668 MHz
 
of 1677 (Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling)
Transistor count
666 million
 
of 21100
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
 
of 7 (Radeon Pro Vega 20)
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
 
of 900 (Tesla S2050)
Texture fill rate
10.69 GTexel / s
 
of 512 (Radeon Pro Duo)
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 video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
 
Length
208 mm
 
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
 

Memory specs

Parameters of memory installed on Radeon HD 3850: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors don't have dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM.
Memory type
GDDR3
 
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
 
of 32
Memory bus width
256 Bit
 
of 8192 (Radeon Pro Duo)
Memory clock speed
1660 MHz
 
of 14000
Memory bandwidth
53.1 GB / s
 
of 1024 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon HD 3850.
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
 

API support

APIs supported by Radeon HD 3850, sometimes including their particular versions.
DirectX
10.1
 
OpenGL
3.3
 
of 4.6

Video card benchmarks performance

Non-gaming benchmarks performance of Radeon HD 3850. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.
Overall benchmark performance
3.09
 
 
Passmark
530
 

Relative perfomance

Overall Radeon HD 3850 performance compared to its nearest competitors. All GPU types participate.
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ATI Radeon HD 3850

NVIDIA equivalent

We believe that the nearest equivalent to Radeon HD 3850 from NVIDIA is GeForce GT 640 Rev. 2, which is nearly equal in speed and lower by 2 positions in our rating.
NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 Rev. 2 GeForce GT 640 Rev. 2 ATI Radeon HD 3850 Radeon HD 3850 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 Rev. 2 GeForce GT 640 Rev. 2

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Other GPUs

NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 Rev. 2 GeForce GT 640 Rev. 2 Intel HD Graphics HD Graphics NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO GeForce 9600 GSO NVIDIA GeForce 615 GeForce 615 ATI Radeon HD 4670 Radeon HD 4670 NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS GeForce 8800 GS

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