ATI Radeon 3000 IGP vs HD 7850

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking451not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation2.81no data
Power efficiency5.33no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code namePitcairnRS780
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Designreferenceno data
Release date5 March 2012 (12 years ago)2009 (15 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$249 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores102440
Core clock speedno data350 MHz
Boost clock speed1000 MHzno data
Number of transistors2,800 million180 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)130 Wattno data
Texture fill rate55.041.400
Floating-point processing power1.761 TFLOPSno data
ROPs324
TMUs644

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).

Bus supportPCIe 2.1 x16no data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 1.0 x16
Length210 mmno data
Width2-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-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 typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount2 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width256 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1200 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth153.6 GB/sno 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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPortMotherboard Dependent
Eyefinity+-
HDMI+-

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

CrossFire+-
FreeSync+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX1210.0 (10_0)
Shader Model5.14.1
OpenGL4.63.3
OpenCL1.21.0
Vulkan+N/A

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 28 nm 65 nm

HD 7850 has a 132.1% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 7850 and Radeon 3000 IGP. We've got no test results to judge.


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