NVIDIA Titan X Pascal vs ATI Radeon HD 3850 X2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Titan X Pascal 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. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: 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, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

NVIDIA Titan X Pascal

ATI Radeon HD 3850 X2

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Titan X Pascal

Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 3 month(s) later
2.1x more core clock speed: 1417 MHz vs 669 MHz
Around 63% higher texture fill rate: 342.9 GTexel / s vs 2x 10.7 GTexel / s billion / sec
5.6x more pipelines: 3584 vs 2x 320
12.8x better floating-point performance: 10,974 gflops vs 2x 428.2 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 16 nm vs 55 nm
12x more maximum memory size: 12 GB vs 2x 512 MB
6x more memory clock speed: 10008 MHz vs 1656 MHz

Launch date	2 August 2016 vs 4 April 2008
Core clock speed	1417 MHz vs 669 MHz
Texture fill rate	342.9 GTexel / s vs 2x 10.7 GTexel / s billion / sec
Pipelines	3584 vs 2x 320
Floating-point performance	10,974 gflops vs 2x 428.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	16 nm vs 55 nm
Maximum memory size	12 GB vs 2x 512 MB
Memory clock speed	10008 MHz vs 1656 MHz

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 3850 X2

Around 79% lower typical power consumption: 140 Watt vs 250 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	140 Watt vs 250 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Titan X Pascal
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 3850 X2

Name	NVIDIA Titan X Pascal	ATI Radeon HD 3850 X2
Geekbench - OpenCL	68108
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	165.792
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	2368.267
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	17.829
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	21.354
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	992.132
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	10841
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3696
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3333
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	10841
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3696
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3333
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	9646
PassMark - G3D Mark		822
PassMark - G2D Mark		422

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Titan X Pascal	ATI Radeon HD 3850 X2
Essentials
Architecture	Pascal	TeraScale
Code name	GP102	RV670
Launch date	2 August 2016	4 April 2008
Launch price (MSRP)	$1,199	$349
Place in performance rating	345	343
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1531 MHz
Core clock speed	1417 MHz	669 MHz
Floating-point performance	10,974 gflops	2x 428.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	16 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	3584	2x 320
Texture fill rate	342.9 GTexel / s	2x 10.7 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	250 Watt	140 Watt
Transistor count	11,800 million	666 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	267 mm	267 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	10.0
OpenGL	4.6	3.3
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	12 GB	2x 512 MB
Memory bandwidth	480.4 GB / s	2x 53.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	384 Bit	2x 256 Bit
Memory clock speed	10008 MHz	1656 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5X	GDDR3
Shared memory	0