VIA S3 Graphics ProSavage8 vs ATI Radeon HD 3850

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	1097	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	0.02	no data
Power efficiency	0.94	no data
Architecture	TeraScale (2005−2013)	no data
GPU code name	RV670	no data
Market segment	Desktop	Laptop
Release date	19 November 2007 (16 years ago)	1 January 2001 (23 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$179	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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 cores	320	no data
Core clock speed	668 MHz	no data
Boost clock speed	no data	121 MHz
Number of transistors	666 million	no data
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	no data
Power consumption (TDP)	75 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	10.69	no data
Floating-point processing power	0.4275 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	16	no data
TMUs	16	no data

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).

Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	no data
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	no data
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	no data
Memory bus width	256 Bit	no data
Memory clock speed	830 MHz	no data
Memory bandwidth	53.12 GB/s	no data
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 Connectors

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX	10.1 (10_1)	no data
Shader Model	4.1	no data
OpenGL	3.3	no data
OpenCL	N/A	no data
Vulkan	N/A	-

Pros & cons summary

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Recency

19 November 2007

1 January 2001

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