Radeon HD 3850 and GeForce FX 5900 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 3850 vs GeForce FX 5900
Radeon HD 3850
404
GeForce FX 5900
35
Radeon HD 3850
GeForce FX 5900
Architecture
TeraScale (2005−2013)
Rankine (2003−2005)
GPU code name
RV670
NV35
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2007
May 2003
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
1x Molex
Core clock speed
668 MHz
400 MHz
Floating-point performance
427.5 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
130 nm
Number of transistors
666 million
135 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
320
-
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
10.69
3.200
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
128 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1660 MHz
850 MHz
Memory bandwidth
53.12 GB/s
27.2 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
9.0a
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
OpenGL
3.3
1.5 (2.1)
Shader Model
4.1
-
Vulkan
N/A
N/A