Radeon HD 3850 [in 1 benchmark]
ATI
Radeon HD 3850
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- Interface PCIe 2.0 x16
- Core clock speed 668 MHz
- Max video memory 1024
- Memory type GDDR3
- Memory clock speed 1660 MHz
- Maximum resolution
Summary
ATI started Radeon HD 3850 sales 19 November 2007 at a recommended price of $179. This is a TeraScale architecture desktop card based on 55 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use. 1 GB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 1.66 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 53.12 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is single-slot card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 208 mm. 1x 6-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 75 Watt.
It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at
1.04%
of a leader’s which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090.
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General info
Some basic facts about Radeon HD 3850: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
Place in performance rating | 993 | |
Value for money | 0.37 | |
Architecture | TeraScale (2005−2013) | |
GPU code name | RV670 | |
Market segment | Desktop | |
Release date | 19 November 2007 (15 years old) |
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Launch price (MSRP) | $179 | |
Current price | $30 (0. 2x MSRP) | of 49999 (A100 SXM4) |
Value for money
Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.
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Technical specs
Radeon HD 3850’s general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon HD 3850’s performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
Pipelines / CUDA cores | 320 | of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
Core clock speed | 668 MHz | of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
Number of transistors | 666 million | of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile) |
Manufacturing process technology | 55 nm | of 4 (GeForce RTX 4080 Ti) |
Thermal design power (TDP) | 75 Watt | of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
Texture fill rate | 10. 69 | of 969.9 (h200 SXM5 96 GB) |
Floating-point performance | 427.5 gflops | of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo) |
Dimensions and compatibility
Information on Radeon HD 3850’s 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 | |
Length | 208 mm | |
Width | 1-slot | |
Supplementary power connectors | 1x 6-pin |
Memory
Parameters of memory installed on Radeon HD 3850: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
Memory type | GDDR3 | |
Maximum RAM amount | 1 GB | of 128 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
Memory bus width | 256 Bit | of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
Memory clock speed | 1660 MHz | of 22400 (GeForce RTX 4080) |
Memory bandwidth | 53.12 GB/s | of 14400 (Radeon R7 M260) |
Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon HD 3850. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
Display Connectors | 2x DVI, 1x S-Video |
API support
APIs supported by Radeon HD 3850, sometimes including their particular versions.
DirectX | 10.1 (10_1) | |
Shader Model | 4.1 | |
OpenGL | 3.3 | of 4.6 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile) |
OpenCL | N/A | |
Vulkan | N/A |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of Radeon HD 3850. Overall performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.
Overall score
This is our combined benchmark performance rating. 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
1.04
- Passmark
Passmark
This is probably the most ubiquitous benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various 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
409
Gaming performance
Let’s see how good Radeon HD 3850 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.
Relative perfomance
Radeon HD 3850’s performance compared to nearest competitors among desktop video cards.
Intel UHD Graphics (Elkhart Lake 16 EU)
100.96
NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M Mac Edition
100.96
NVIDIA GeForce 810M
100
ATI Radeon HD 3850
100
ATI Radeon E4690
99. 04
AMD Radeon HD 6550D
98.08
AMD Radeon HD 6450 GDDR5
94.23
NVIDIA equivalent
We believe that the nearest equivalent to Radeon HD 3850 from NVIDIA is GeForce 810M, which is nearly equal in speed and higher by 1 position in our rating.
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810M
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Here are some closest NVIDIA rivals to Radeon HD 3850:
NVIDIA GeForce 800A
103.85
NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M Mac Edition
100.96
NVIDIA GeForce 810M
100
ATI Radeon HD 3850
100
NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GTX
94. 23
NVIDIA GeForce GT 620
88.46
NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GT
83.65
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Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with Radeon HD 3850 according to our statistics.
Core 2
Duo E8400
5.1%
Core 2
Quad Q6600
3.2%
Core 2
Duo E6750
1.8%
Athlon II
X2 250
1.8%
Core 2
Duo E7200
1.5%
Core 2
Duo E7500
1.5%
FX
4100
1.5%
Core 2
Duo E7400
1. 5%
Athlon 64
X2 6000+
1.5%
Athlon 64
X2 5000+
1.4%
User rating
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ATI Radeon HD 3870 & 3850: A Return to Competition
by Anand Lal Shimpi & Derek Wilsonon November 15, 2007 12:00 AM EST
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IndexNew Features you Say? UVD and DirectX 10. 1Sensible Naming and the Cards2, 3 or 4 GPUs: Introducing CrossFire XPricing and AvailabilityLet’s Get It Out of the Way: Radeon HD 3870 vs. GeForce 8800 GTObsoleting Products: Radeon HD 3870 vs. 2900 XTMid-Range Battle: Radeon HD 3850 vs. GeForce 8600 GTSOut with the Old, in with the Mid-RangeMulti-GPU Scaling: Two 3850s = One 8800 GTX?Power ConsumptionFinal Words
Finally. We’re finally getting somewhere interesting in the graphics industry. Although they’re sure to return, the days of reviewing $600 graphics card after $600 graphics card are on hiatus, and instead we’re reviewing a new class of mainstream cards with earth-shattering performance.
NVIDIA’s GeForce 8800 GT kicked off the trend, in one fell swoop making almost all of NVIDIA’s product line obsolete thanks to the high performance and low price tag (we’ll talk about that last part shortly). But what we saw there wasn’t a fluke, it was a preemptive strike against AMD, who have been hard at work on an affordable GPU of their own.
This new product, like the 8800 GT, would be aimed squarely at the $150 — $250 market segment, something both AMD and NVIDIA did a horrible job at with mainstream releases earlier this year (2600 and 8600 both sucked guys).
Introducing the RV670
AMD’s two new graphics cards launching today are both based off a new GPU, referred to internally as the RV670. The basic architecture of the hardware is largely unchanged from R600; there has been some additional functionality added, and a great deal of internal bandwidth removed, but other than that this is very much an R600 based part.
The biggest news of this part is that it is fabbed on a 55nm TSMC process. This is a half-node process based on 65nm technology, giving AMD an advantage in die size (cost) and potentially clock speed and/or power.
Historically, AMD’s RV series has been a cost cut version of their R series designed for lower end volume parts, and that’s where RV670 started. Right of the bat, half the external and internal memory bandwidth of R600 was cut out. External bandwidth dropped from 512-bit to 256-bit, but AMD stuck with 8 memory channels (each dropped from 64bit to 32bit).
Internally, the ring bus dropped from 1024-bit to 512-bit. This cut in bandwidth contributed to a significant drop in transistor count from R600’s ~720M. RV670 is made up of 666M transistors, and this includes the addition of UVD hardware, some power saving features, the necessary additions for DX 10.1 and the normal performance tuning we would expect from another iteration of the architecture.
Processing power remains unchanged from the R600; the RV670 features 320 stream processors, 16 texture units and 16 redner back-ends. Clock speeds have gone up slightly and memory speeds have increased tremendously to make up for the narrower memory bus.
The RV670 GPU is also fully PCI Express 2.0 compliant like NVIDIA’s G92, the heart and soul of the GeForce 8800 GT.
New Features you Say? UVD and DirectX 10.1
IndexNew Features you Say? UVD and DirectX 10.1Sensible Naming and the Cards2, 3 or 4 GPUs: Introducing CrossFire XPricing and AvailabilityLet’s Get It Out of the Way: Radeon HD 3870 vs. GeForce 8800 GTObsoleting Products: Radeon HD 3870 vs. 2900 XTMid-Range Battle: Radeon HD 3850 vs. GeForce 8600 GTSOut with the Old, in with the Mid-RangeMulti-GPU Scaling: Two 3850s = One 8800 GTX?Power ConsumptionFinal Words
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Radeon HD 3850 video card [in 1 benchmark]
ATI
Radeon HD 3850
- PCIe 2. 0 x16 interface
- Core clock 668 MHz
- Video memory size 1024
- Memory type GDDR3
- Memory frequency 1660 MHz
- Maximum resolution
Description
ATI started Radeon HD 3850 sales on November 19, 2007 at a suggested price of $179. This is a desktop video card based on the TeraScale architecture and 55 nm manufacturing process, primarily designed for office use. It has 1 GB of GDDR3 memory at 1.66 GHz, and coupled with a 256-bit interface, this creates a bandwidth of 53.12 GB / s.
In terms of compatibility, this is a single-slot PCIe 2.0 x16 card. The length of the reference version is 208 mm. An additional 1x 6-pin power cable is required for connection, and the power consumption is 75W.
It provides poor performance in tests and games at the level of
1.04%
from the leader, which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090.
GeForce RTX
4090
Compare
General information
Information about the type (desktop or laptop) and architecture of Radeon HD 3850, as well as when sales started and cost at that time.
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Features
Radeon HD 3850’s general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. They indirectly speak about Radeon HD 3850’s performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
Compatibility and dimensions
Information on Radeon HD 3850 compatibility with other computer components. Useful for example when choosing the configuration of a future computer or to upgrade an existing one. For desktop video cards, these are the interface and connection bus (compatibility with the motherboard), the physical dimensions of the video card (compatibility with the motherboard and case), additional power connectors (compatibility with the power supply).
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Video
Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon HD 3850. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference video cards, since for laptop ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model.
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OpenCl | N/A | VULKAN | N/A | 4214 9014
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