GeForce 8800 GTS 512 and Radeon HD 3850 X3 - video card comparison
GeForce 8800 GTS 512
Radeon HD 3850 X3
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name
G92
RV670
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
December 2007
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Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 8-pin
Core clock speed
650 MHz
669 MHz
Floating-point performance
416.0 gflops
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Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
754 million
666 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
128
320
Power consumption (TDP)
135 Watt
145 Watt
Texture fill rate
41.60
10.70
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1640 MHz
1700 MBps
Memory bandwidth
52.48 GB/s
54.4 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
4x DVI
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
10.1 (10_1)
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
3.3
3.3 (full)
Shader Model4.04.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A