Radeon HD 3850 AGP and GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 3 - video card comparison
Radeon HD 3850 AGP
GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 3
Architecture
TeraScale (2005−2013)
Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
GPU code name
RV670
GF116
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
January 2008
July 2012
Interface
AGP 8x
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 8-pin
-
Core clock speed
668 MHz
783 MHz
Floating-point performance
427.5 gflops
451.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
666 million
1,170 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
320
144
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
106 Watt
Texture fill rate
10.69
18.79
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
1 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1656 MHz
1400 MHz
Memory bandwidth
52.99 GB/s
22.4 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
-
2.1
OpenCL
N/A
1.1
OpenGL
3.3
4.6
Shader Model
4.1
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A