Radeon HD 3850 AGP and GeForce 9800 GTX - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 3850 AGP vs GeForce 9800 GTX
Radeon HD 3850 AGP
445
GeForce 9800 GTX
792
Radeon HD 3850 AGP
GeForce 9800 GTX
Architecture
TeraScale (2005−2013)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
RV670
G92
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
January 2008
March 2008
Bus support
-
PCI-E 2.0
Interface
AGP 8x
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 8-pin
2x 6-pin
SLI options
-
+
Core clock speed
668 MHz
675 MHz
CUDA cores
-
128
Floating-point performance
427.5 gflops
432.1 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
666 million
754 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
320
128
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
140 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
-
105 °C
Texture fill rate
10.69
43.2 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1656 MHz
1100 MHz
Memory bandwidth
52.99 GB/s
70.4 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
HDTVDual Link DVI
Multi monitor support
-
+
HDMI
-
Via Adapter
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