AMD Radeon RX Vega 2 vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX Vega 2 and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, API support, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL.

AMD Radeon RX Vega 2

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 2

Videocard is newer: launch date 9 year(s) 7 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 55 nm
Around 38% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 506 vs 366

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	7 Jan 2018 vs 4 June 2008
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm vs 55 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	506 vs 366

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850

2.5x more pipelines: 320 vs 128
Around 2% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 248 vs 244

Specifications (specs)
Pipelines	320 vs 128
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	248 vs 244

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX Vega 2
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

244

248

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

506

366

Name	AMD Radeon RX Vega 2	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850
PassMark - G2D Mark	244	248
PassMark - G3D Mark	506	366
Geekbench - OpenCL	3208

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX Vega 2	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850
Essentials
Architecture	Vega	TeraScale
Code name	Vega Raven Ridge	M88
Launch date	7 Jan 2018	4 June 2008
Place in performance rating	949	653
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1100 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	128	320
Transistor count	4500 million	666 million
Core clock speed		580 MHz
Floating-point performance		371.2 gflops
Texture fill rate		9.28 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		35 Watt
API support
DirectX	12.1	10.1
OpenGL		3.3
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		No outputs
HDCP
HDMI
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size		large
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		512 MB
Memory bandwidth		48.0 GB / s
Memory bus width		256 Bit
Memory clock speed		1500 MHz
Memory type		GDDR3
Shared memory		0