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 TeraScale architecture desktop card based on 55 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at gamers. 0.5 GB 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 15.59 percent of a leader's which is AMD Radeon R9 390 X2.

General info Technical specs Memory specs Benchmarks NVIDIA equivalent Advices and comments

General info

Of Radeon HD 3850's architecture, market type and release date.

Place in performance rating

247

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 12

Power consumption (TDP)

75 Watt

of 900 (Tesla S2050)

Texture fill rate

10.69

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

0.5 GB

of 32

Memory bus width

256 Bit

of 8192 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Memory clock speed

1660 MHz

of 11408 (TITAN Xp)

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

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

15.34

3DMark Ice Storm GPU

117838.00

3DMark Vantage Performance

8674.00

Unigine Heaven 3.0

1154.38

Relative perfomance

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

103.78 %

AMD Radeon RX Vega 11

102.44 %

AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2

100.06 %

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030

100 %

ATI Radeon HD 3850

99.94 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE

93.52 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A

92.94 %

AMD Radeon HD 7750

NVIDIA equivalent

We believe that the nearest equivalent to Radeon HD 3850 from NVIDIA is GeForce GTX 460 SE, which is nearly equal in speed and lower by 1 position in our rating.