Radeon HD 3850 and GeForce 7900 GTX - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 3850 vs GeForce 7900 GTX
Radeon HD 3850
404
GeForce 7900 GTX
399
Radeon HD 3850
GeForce 7900 GTX
Architecture
TeraScale (2005−2013)
Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name
RV670
G71
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2007
March 2006
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 6-pin
Core clock speed
668 MHz
650 MHz
Floating-point performance
427.5 gflops
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Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
90 nm
Number of transistors
666 million
278 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
320
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Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
84 Watt
Texture fill rate
10.69
15.60
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
512 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1660 MHz
1600 MHz
Memory bandwidth
53.12 GB/s
51.2 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