NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN vs ATI Radeon HD 3850 X2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN and ATI Radeon HD 3850 X2 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, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN

ATI Radeon HD 3850 X2

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 10 month(s) later
Around 25% higher core clock speed: 837 MHz vs 669 MHz
4.2x more pipelines: 2688 vs 2x 320
5.5x better floating-point performance: 4,709 gflops vs 2x 428.2 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 55 nm
6x more maximum memory size: 6 GB vs 2x 512 MB
10x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 8190 vs 822
Around 49% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 630 vs 422

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	19 February 2013 vs 4 April 2008
Core clock speed	837 MHz vs 669 MHz
Pipelines	2688 vs 2x 320
Floating-point performance	4,709 gflops vs 2x 428.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 55 nm
Maximum memory size	6 GB vs 2x 512 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	8190 vs 822
PassMark - G2D Mark	630 vs 422

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 3850 X2

Around 12% higher texture fill rate: 2x 10.7 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 187.5 billion / sec
Around 79% lower typical power consumption: 140 Watt vs 250 Watt
276x more memory clock speed: 1656 MHz vs 6.0 GB/s

Texture fill rate	2x 10.7 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 187.5 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	140 Watt vs 250 Watt
Memory clock speed	1656 MHz vs 6.0 GB/s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 3850 X2

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

8190

822

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

630

422

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN	ATI Radeon HD 3850 X2
PassMark - G3D Mark	8190	822
PassMark - G2D Mark	630	422
Geekbench - OpenCL	23915
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	62.027
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	1218.137
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	5.835
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	36.842
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	215.546
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	10176
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3715
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3356
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	10176
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3715
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3356
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	2901

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN	ATI Radeon HD 3850 X2
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler	TeraScale
Code name	GK110	RV670
Launch date	19 February 2013	4 April 2008
Launch price (MSRP)	$999	$349
Place in performance rating	428	344
Price now	$2,054.59
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	5.09
Technical info
Boost clock speed	876 MHz
Core clock speed	837 MHz	669 MHz
CUDA cores	2688
Floating-point performance	4,709 gflops	2x 428.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	2688	2x 320
Texture fill rate	187.5 billion / sec	2x 10.7 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	250 Watt	140 Watt
Transistor count	7,080 million	666 million
Video outputs and ports
Audio input for HDMI	Internal
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort, One Dual Link DVI-I, One Dual Link DVI-D, One HDMI...	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
G-SYNC support
HDCP
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution	2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCI Express 3.0
Height	4.376" (11.1 cm)
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	10.5" (26.7 cm)	267 mm
Supplementary power connectors	One 8-pin and one 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	10.0
OpenGL	4.4	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	2x 512 MB
Memory bandwidth	288.4 GB / s	2x 53.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	384-bit GDDR5	2x 256 Bit
Memory clock speed	6.0 GB/s	1656 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3
Technologies
3D Gaming
3D Vision
3D Vision Live
Adaptive VSync
Blu Ray 3D
CUDA
FXAA
GPU Boost
TXAA