Radeon HD 3850 and GeForce GT 230 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 3850 vs GeForce GT 230
Radeon HD 3850
404
GeForce GT 230
333
Radeon HD 3850
GeForce GT 230
Architecture
TeraScale (2005−2013)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
RV670
G94B
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2007
October 2009
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Core clock speed
668 MHz
650 MHz
Floating-point performance
427.5 gflops
156 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
666 million
505 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
320
48
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
75 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
1800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
53.12 GB/s
57.6 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
No outputs
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
1.1
OpenGL
3.3
3.3
Shader Model
4.1
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A