ATI Radeon HD 3850 AGP videocard review

Radeon HD 3850 AGP videocard released by ATI; release date: 3 January 2008. The videocard is designed for desktop-computers and based on TeraScale microarchitecture codenamed RV670.

Core clock speed - 668 MHz. Texture fill rate - 10.69 GTexel / s. Pipelines - 320. Floating-point performance - 427.5 gflops. Manufacturing process technology - 55 nm. Transistors count - 666 million. Power consumption (TDP) - 75 Watt.

Memory type: GDDR3. Maximum RAM amount - 512 MB. Memory bus width - 256 Bit. Memory clock speed - 1656 MHz. Memory bandwidth - 53.0 GB / s.

Benchmarks

PassMark
G3D Mark

Top 1 GPU

This GPU

38588

432

PassMark
G2D Mark

Top 1 GPU

This GPU

1295

GFXBench 4.0
T-Rex

Top 1 GPU

This GPU

69225 Frames

2417 Frames

GFXBench 4.0
T-Rex

Top 1 GPU

This GPU

69225.000 Fps

2417.000 Fps

Name	Value
PassMark - G3D Mark	432
PassMark - G2D Mark	92
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex	2417 Frames
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex	2417.000 Fps

Specifications (specs)

Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale
Code name	RV670
Launch date	3 January 2008
Place in performance rating	1379
Type	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	668 MHz
Floating-point performance	427.5 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm
Pipelines	320
Texture fill rate	10.69 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt
Transistor count	666 million

Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin
API support
DirectX	10.0
OpenGL	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	53.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1656 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3