AMD Radeon R3 Mobile Graphics vs ATI Radeon X850 XT Platinum AGP

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R3 Mobile Graphics and ATI Radeon X850 XT Platinum AGP videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

AMD Radeon R3 Mobile Graphics

ATI Radeon X850 XT Platinum AGP

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R3 Mobile Graphics

Videocard is newer: launch date 11 year(s) 3 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 130 nm
4.5x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 67 Watt

Launch date	1 June 2016 vs 28 February 2005
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 130 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 67 Watt

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X850 XT Platinum AGP

2.7x more core clock speed: 540 MHz vs 200 MHz

Core clock speed	540 MHz vs 200 MHz

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R3 Mobile Graphics	ATI Radeon X850 XT Platinum AGP
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 3.0	R400
Code name	Stoney	R481
Launch date	1 June 2016	28 February 2005
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	600 MHz
Core clock speed	200 MHz	540 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	130 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt	67 Watt
Transistor count	3,100 million	160 million
Texture fill rate		8.64 GTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	IGP	AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors		1x Molex
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_0)	9.0b
OpenGL	4.5	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		256 MB
Memory bandwidth		37.8 GB / s
Memory bus width		256 Bit
Memory clock speed		1180 MHz
Memory type		GDDR3