ATI Radeon HD 3850 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti OEM

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General info

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

Place in performance rankingnot rated1063
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Value for moneyno data0.37
ArchitectureFermi 2.0 (2010−2014)TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code nameGF114RV670
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date8 March 2011 (13 years old)19 November 2007 (16 years old)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$179
Current price$110 $30 (0.2x MSRP)
Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores384320
Core clock speed823 MHz668 MHz
Number of transistors1,950 million666 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)170 Watt75 Watt
Texture fill rate52.6710.69
Floating-point performance1,263.4 gflops427.5 gflops

Size and 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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Length229 mm208 mm
Width2-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 6-pin1x 6-pin

Memory

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 typeGDDR5GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount1 GB1 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed4008 MHz1660 MHz
Memory bandwidth128.3 GB/s53.12 GB/s

Video outputs and ports

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 mini-HDMI2x DVI, 1x S-Video
HDMI+no data

API support

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

DirectX12 (11_0)10.1 (10_1)
Shader Model5.14.1
OpenGL4.63.3
OpenCL1.1N/A
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA2.1no data

Advantages and disadvantages


Recency 8 March 2011 19 November 2007
Chip lithography 40 nm 55 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 170 Watt 75 Watt

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