Radeon HD 3850 and Radeon HD 6450 GDDR5 - video card comparison
Radeon HD 3850
Radeon HD 6450 GDDR5
Architecture
TeraScale (2005−2013)
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
RV670
Caicos
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2007
April 2011
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
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Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
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Core clock speed
668 MHz
750 MHz
Floating-point performance
427.5 gflops
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Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
666 million
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Pipelines / CUDA cores
320
160
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
27 Watt
Texture fill rate
10.69
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Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
1660 MHz
900 MHz
Memory bandwidth
53.12 GB/s
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Shared memory
-
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Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
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DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
11
OpenCL
N/A
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OpenGL
3.3
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Shader Model
4.1
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Vulkan
N/A
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