ATI Radeon X1700 SE vs ATI Radeon HD 3850

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon X1700 SE and ATI Radeon HD 3850 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X1700 SE

  • Around 50% lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 75 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 50 Watt vs 75 Watt

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 3850

  • Around 34% higher core clock speed: 668 MHz vs 500 MHz
  • 2.7x more texture fill rate: 10.69 GTexel / s vs 4 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 80 nm
  • Around 66% higher memory clock speed: 1660 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Core clock speed 668 MHz vs 500 MHz
Texture fill rate 10.69 GTexel / s vs 4 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 55 nm vs 80 nm
Memory clock speed 1660 MHz vs 1000 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon X1700 SE
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 3850

Name ATI Radeon X1700 SE ATI Radeon HD 3850
PassMark - G3D Mark 393
PassMark - G2D Mark 30
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3345
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3345

Compare specifications (specs)

ATI Radeon X1700 SE ATI Radeon HD 3850

Essentials

Architecture R500 TeraScale
Code name RV560 RV670
Launch date 30 November 2007 19 November 2007
Place in performance rating not rated 1472
Type Desktop Desktop
Launch price (MSRP) $179

Technical info

Core clock speed 500 MHz 668 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 80 nm 55 nm
Texture fill rate 4 GTexel / s 10.69 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 50 Watt 75 Watt
Transistor count 330 million 666 million
Floating-point performance 427.5 gflops
Pipelines 320

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x S-Video 2x DVI, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 1.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None 1x 6-pin
Length 208 mm

API support

DirectX 9.0c 10.0
OpenGL 2.0 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 16 GB / s 53.1 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1000 MHz 1660 MHz
Memory type DDR2 GDDR3

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