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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 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 2.48 percent of a leader's which is NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000.

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

General info

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

Place in performance rating

546

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 RX Vega 64)

Core clock speed

668 MHz

of 1620 (Quadro RTX 5000)

Transistor count

666 million

of 21100

Manufacturing process technology

55 nm

of 7 (Radeon Instinct Vega)

Power consumption (TDP)

75 Watt

of 900 (Tesla S2050)

Texture fill rate

10.69 GTexel / s

of 1760 (Quadro4 400 NVS PCI)

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

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 32784 (Radeon Pro Duo Polaris)

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 benchmark 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

2.48

Passmark

ATI HD 3850

minimum GeForce 8600 GT

Counter-Strike: GO

2012

Official system requirements

Radeon HD 3850 performance compared to Counter-Strike: GO official system requirements.

ATI HD 3850

recommended GeForce 6600

League of Legends

2009

Official system requirements

Radeon HD 3850 performance compared to League of Legends official system requirements.

ATI HD 3850

minimum GeForce 6150 LE

recommended GeForce 8800 GT

Minecraft

2009

Official system requirements

Radeon HD 3850 performance compared to Minecraft official system requirements.

ATI HD 3850

minimum Radeon HD 2400

recommended Radeon HD 5870

Relative perfomance

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

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS

100 %

ATI Radeon HD 3850

97.98 %

AMD Radeon HD 8470D

97.58 %

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO

95.56 %

NVIDIA GeForce 710A

NVIDIA equivalent

We believe that the nearest equivalent to Radeon HD 3850 from NVIDIA is GeForce 9600 GSO, which is slower by 2% and lower by 5 positions in our rating.