Radeon HD 3850 AGP and GeForce FX 5500 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 3850 AGP vs GeForce FX 5500
Radeon HD 3850 AGP
445
GeForce FX 5500
8
Radeon HD 3850 AGP
GeForce FX 5500
Architecture
TeraScale (2005−2013)
Rankine (2003−2005)
GPU code name
RV670
NV34 B1
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
January 2008
March 2004
Interface
AGP 8x
AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors
1x 8-pin
None
Core clock speed
668 MHz
270 MHz
Floating-point performance
427.5 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
150 nm
Number of transistors
666 million
45 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
320
-
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
10.69
1.080
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
64 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1656 MHz
332 MHz
Memory bandwidth
52.99 GB/s
5.312 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
9.0a
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
OpenGL
3.3
1.5 (2.1)
Shader Model
4.1
-
Vulkan
N/A
N/A