ATI Radeon HD 4850 vs ATI Radeon HD 3200

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon HD 4850 and ATI Radeon HD 3200 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

ATI Radeon HD 4850

ATI Radeon HD 3200

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 4850

Around 25% higher core clock speed: 625 MHz vs 500 MHz
20x more pipelines: 800 vs 40
11.5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 941 vs 82
8.7x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3344 vs 386
8.7x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3344 vs 386

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	625 MHz vs 500 MHz
Pipelines	800 vs 40
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	941 vs 82
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3344 vs 386
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3344 vs 386

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 3200

3x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 227 vs 75

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	227 vs 75

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon HD 4850
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 3200

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

941

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

227

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3344

386

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3344

386

Name	ATI Radeon HD 4850	ATI Radeon HD 3200
PassMark - G3D Mark	941	82
PassMark - G2D Mark	75	227
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3344	386
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3344	386

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon HD 4850	ATI Radeon HD 3200
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale	RV6xx
Code name	RV770	RS780M
Launch date	25 June 2008	4 June 2008
Launch price (MSRP)	$199
Place in performance rating	1288	1289
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	625 MHz	500 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,000.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	800	40
Texture fill rate	25 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	110 Watt
Transistor count	956 million	181 Million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	246 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	10.1	10
OpenGL	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	63.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1986 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3
Shared memory		yes
Technologies
HDCP support
PCI-E 2.0