NVIDIA ION LE vs ATI Radeon HD 3850 AGP
Comparative analysis of NVIDIA ION LE and ATI Radeon HD 3850 AGP 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 NVIDIA ION LE
- Videocard is newer: launch date 5 month(s) later
- 3.8x lower typical power consumption: 20 Watt vs 75 Watt
- Around 4% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 96 vs 92
Specifications (specs) | |
Launch date | 3 June 2008 vs 3 January 2008 |
Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 20 Watt vs 75 Watt |
Benchmarks | |
PassMark - G2D Mark | 96 vs 92 |
Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 3850 AGP
- Around 48% higher core clock speed: 668 MHz vs 450 MHz
- A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 65 nm
- 4.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 432 vs 98
Specifications (specs) | |
Core clock speed | 668 MHz vs 450 MHz |
Manufacturing process technology | 55 nm vs 65 nm |
Benchmarks | |
PassMark - G3D Mark | 432 vs 98 |
Compare benchmarks
GPU 1: NVIDIA ION LE
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 3850 AGP
PassMark - G3D Mark |
|
|
||||
PassMark - G2D Mark |
|
|
Name | NVIDIA ION LE | ATI Radeon HD 3850 AGP |
---|---|---|
PassMark - G3D Mark | 98 | 432 |
PassMark - G2D Mark | 96 | 92 |
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) | 2417 | |
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) | 2417 |
Compare specifications (specs)
NVIDIA ION LE | ATI Radeon HD 3850 AGP | |
---|---|---|
Essentials |
||
Architecture | Tesla | TeraScale |
Code name | ION | RV670 |
Launch date | 3 June 2008 | 3 January 2008 |
Place in performance rating | 1378 | 1379 |
Type | Desktop | Desktop |
Technical info |
||
Core clock speed | 450 MHz | 668 MHz |
Manufacturing process technology | 65 nm | 55 nm |
Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 20 Watt | 75 Watt |
Transistor count | 282 million | 666 million |
Floating-point performance | 427.5 gflops | |
Pipelines | 320 | |
Texture fill rate | 10.69 GTexel / s | |
Video outputs and ports |
||
Display Connectors | No outputs | 2x DVI, 1x S-Video |
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements |
||
Interface | PCI | AGP 8x |
Supplementary power connectors | 1x 8-pin | |
API support |
||
DirectX | 10.0 | 10.0 |
OpenGL | 3.3 | 3.3 |
Memory |
||
Maximum RAM amount | 512 MB | |
Memory bandwidth | 53.0 GB / s | |
Memory bus width | 256 Bit | |
Memory clock speed | 1656 MHz | |
Memory type | GDDR3 |