Radeon HD 3850 and GeForce 9800M GT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 3850 vs GeForce 9800M GT
Radeon HD 3850
404
GeForce 9800M GT
392
Radeon HD 3850
GeForce 9800M GT
Architecture
TeraScale (2005−2013)
G9x (2007−2010)
GPU code name
RV670
NB9E-GT2
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
November 2007
July 2008
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Core clock speed
668 MHz
500 MHz
CUDA cores
-
96
Floating-point performance
427.5 gflops
240 gflops
Gigaflops
-
360
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
666 million
754 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
320
96
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
65 Watt
Texture fill rate
10.69
24.00
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
512 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1660 MHz
800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
53.12 GB/s
51.2 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
No outputs
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
N/A
1.1
OpenGL
3.3
3.3
Shader Model
4.1
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A