Radeon HD 3850 and Radeon 520 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 3850 vs Radeon 520
Radeon HD 3850
404
Radeon 520
811
Radeon HD 3850
Radeon 520
Architecture
TeraScale (2005−2013)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
RV670
Oland
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
November 2007
March 2017
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Core clock speed
668 MHz
1030 MHz
Floating-point performance
427.5 gflops
659.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
666 million
1,040 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
320
320
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
10.69
20.60
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR3, GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
1660 MHz
2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth
53.12 GB/s
16 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI
-
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DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
12.0
OpenCL
N/A
1.2
OpenGL
3.3
4.6
Shader Model
4.1
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
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