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
GPU 1
GPU 2
98
432
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
96
92
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