Radeon HD 3850 X2 and GeForce GTS 250 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 3850 X2 vs GeForce GTS 250
Radeon HD 3850 X2
847
GeForce GTS 250
616
Radeon HD 3850 X2
GeForce GTS 250
Architecture
TeraScale (2005−2013)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
RV670
G92B
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2008
March 2009
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
6-pin
SLI options
-
+
Core clock speed
669 MHz
738 MHz
CUDA cores
-
128
Floating-point performance
2x 428.2 gflops
387.1 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
150 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
-
105 °C
Texture fill rate
10.70
47.2 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
1 GB
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
Two Dual Link DVI
Multi monitor support
-
+
HDMI
-
+
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
3.0
Shader Model
4.1
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A