Radeon HD 3850 AGP and GeForce FX 5950 Ultra - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 3850 AGP vs GeForce FX 5950 Ultra
Radeon HD 3850 AGP
445
GeForce FX 5950 Ultra
61
Radeon HD 3850 AGP
GeForce FX 5950 Ultra
Architecture
TeraScale (2005−2013)
Rankine (2003−2005)
GPU code name
RV670
NV38
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
January 2008
October 2003
Interface
AGP 8x
AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors
1x 8-pin
1x Molex
Core clock speed
668 MHz
475 MHz
Floating-point performance
427.5 gflops
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Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
130 nm
Number of transistors
666 million
135 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
320
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Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
74 Watt
Texture fill rate
10.69
3.800
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
256 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1656 MHz
950 MHz
Memory bandwidth
52.99 GB/s
30.4 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
2.1
Shader Model
4.1
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Vulkan
N/A
N/A