Radeon HD 3850 X2 and GeForce 9800 GTX+ - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 3850 X2 vs GeForce 9800 GTX+
Radeon HD 3850 X2
847
GeForce 9800 GTX+
521
Radeon HD 3850 X2
GeForce 9800 GTX+
Architecture
TeraScale (2005−2013)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
RV670
G92B
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2008
January 2009
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
2x 6-pin
SLI options
-
+
Core clock speed
669 MHz
738 MHz
CUDA cores
-
128
Floating-point performance
2x 428.2 gflops
470.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
666 million
754 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
320
128
Power consumption (TDP)
140 Watt
141 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
-
105 °C
Texture fill rate
10.70
47.2 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
-
+
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