Radeon HD 3850 and GeForce 7800 GTX - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 3850 vs GeForce 7800 GTX
Radeon HD 3850
404
GeForce 7800 GTX
299
Radeon HD 3850
GeForce 7800 GTX
Architecture
TeraScale (2005−2013)
Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name
RV670
G70
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2007
June 2005
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
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Core clock speed
668 MHz
430 MHz
Floating-point performance
427.5 gflops
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Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
110 nm
Number of transistors
666 million
302 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
320
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Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
86 Watt
Texture fill rate
10.69
10.32
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
256 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1660 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory bandwidth
53.12 GB/s
38.4 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
9.0c (9_3)
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
OpenGL
3.3
2.1
Shader Model
4.1
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A