Radeon HD 3850 X3 and Radeon RX Vega 7 - video card comparison

Radeon HD 3850 X3

Radeon RX Vega 7

Architecture

TeraScale (2005−2013)

Vega (2017−2021)

GPU code name

RV670

Vega Raven Ridge

Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

January 2020

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

1800 MHz

Core clock speed

669 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

55 nm

7 nm

Number of transistors

666 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

320

448

Power consumption (TDP)

145 Watt

15 Watt

Texture fill rate

10.70

Memory type

GDDR3

Maximum RAM amount

512 MB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

1700 MBps

Memory bandwidth

54.4 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

4x DVI

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

12_1

OpenCL

N/A

OpenGL

3.3 (full) Shader Model

4.1-

Vulkan

N/A