ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4330 vs ATI HD 3850 AGP

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1078not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency1.04no data
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code nameRV670M92
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date3 January 2008 (16 years ago)9 January 2009 (15 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 cores32080
Core clock speed668 MHz450 MHz
Number of transistors666 million242 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Wattno data
Texture fill rate10.693.600
Floating-point processing power0.4275 TFLOPS0.072 TFLOPS
ROPs164
TMUs168

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).

InterfaceAGP 8xPCIe 2.0 x16
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 8-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 typeGDDR3GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount512 MB512 MB
Memory bus width256 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed828 MHz600 MHz
Memory bandwidth52.99 GB/s9.6 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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-VideoNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.1 (10_1)10.1 (10_1)
Shader Model4.14.1
OpenGL3.33.3
OpenCLN/A1.1
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 3 January 2008 9 January 2009

ATI Mobility HD 4330 has an age advantage of 1 year.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 3850 AGP and Mobility Radeon HD 4330. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 3850 AGP is a desktop card while Mobility Radeon HD 4330 is a notebook one.


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