Mobility Radeon HD 3850 and GeForce GTX 280M - video card comparison
Mobility Radeon HD 3850
GeForce GTX 280M
Architecture
RV6xx (2007−2010)
G9x (2007−2010)
GPU code name
M88
N10E-GTX
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
December 2007
March 2009
Bus support
-
PCI-E 2.0
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
MXM-IV
SLI options
-
+
MXM Type
-
MXM 3.0 Type-B
Core clock speed
580 MHz
585 MHz
CUDA cores
-
128
Floating-point performance
371.2 gflops
374.5 gflops
Gigaflops
-
562
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
666 million
754 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
320
128
Power consumption (TDP)
55 Watt
75 Watt
Texture fill rate
9.280
38 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
1 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
750 MHz
Up to 950 MHz
Memory bandwidth
48 GB/s
61 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
HDMIDual Link DVISingle Link DVIDisplayPortLVDSVGA
HDMI
-
+
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
Audio input for HDMI
-
S/PDIF
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
N/A
1.1
OpenGL
3.3
2.1
Shader Model
4.1
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A
Power management
-
8.0