Radeon HD 3830 and M6 - video card comparison

Radeon HD 3830

M6

Architecture

TeraScale (2005−2013)

Rage 6 (2000−2007)

GPU code name

RV670

M6

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

April 2008

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Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

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Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

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Core clock speed

668 MHz

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Floating-point performance

427.5 gflops

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Manufacturing process technology

55 nm

180 nm

Number of transistors

666 million

30 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

320

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Power consumption (TDP)

75 Watt

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Texture fill rate

10.69

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Memory type

GDDR3

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Maximum RAM amount

256 MB

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Memory bus width

128 Bit

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Memory clock speed

1656 MHz

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Memory bandwidth

26.5 GB/s

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Display Connectors

No outputs

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DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

7.0

OpenCL

N/A

N/A

OpenGL

3.3

1.3

Shader Model

4.1

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Vulkan

N/A

N/A