HD Graphics 3000 vs Radeon HD 3850

Place in performance ranking	1065	1144
Place by popularity	not in top-100	72
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	0.37	no data
Architecture	TeraScale (2005−2013)	Gen. 6 Sandy Bridge (2011)
GPU code name	RV670	Sandy Bridge
Market segment	Desktop	Laptop
Release date	19 November 2007 (16 years ago)	1 February 2011 (13 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$179	no data
Current price	$30 (0.2x MSRP)	$476

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

ATI HD 3850 and HD Graphics 3000 have a nearly equal value for money.

Detailed specifications

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 cores	320	12
Core clock speed	668 MHz	350 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	1350 MHz
Number of transistors	666 million	995 million
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	32 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	75 Watt	unknown
Texture fill rate	10.69	13.80
Floating-point performance	427.5 gflops	20.4 gflops

Form factor & compatibility

Information on Radeon HD 3850 and HD Graphics 3000 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). For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	208 mm	no data
Width	1-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	no 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 type	GDDR3	System Shared
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	System Shared
Memory bus width	256 Bit	64/128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1660 MHz	System Shared
Memory bandwidth	53.12 GB/s	no data
Shared memory	no data	+

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 Connectors

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

No outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX	10.1 (10_1)	11.1 (10_1)
Shader Model	4.1	4.1
OpenGL	3.3	3.1
OpenCL	N/A	N/A
Vulkan	N/A	N/A

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark performance comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

ATI HD 3850 1.01
+53%

HD Graphics 3000 0.66

Radeon HD 3850 outperforms HD Graphics 3000 by 53% based on our aggregated benchmark results.

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

Benchmark coverage: 25%

ATI HD 3850 392
+54.3%

HD Graphics 3000 254

Radeon HD 3850 outperforms HD Graphics 3000 by 54% in Passmark.