Radeon HD 3850 and Radeon R5 230 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 3850 vs Radeon R5 230
Radeon HD 3850
404
Radeon R5 230
228
Radeon HD 3850
Radeon R5 230
Architecture
TeraScale (2005−2013)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
RV670
Caicos
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2007
April 2014
Bus support
-
PCIe 1.0 x4
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
N/A
Core clock speed
668 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
427.5 gflops
200.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
666 million
370 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
320
160
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
19 Watt
Texture fill rate
10.69
5.000
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
1660 MHz
-
Memory bandwidth
53.12 GB/s
10.67 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
Eyefinity
-
1
HDMI
-
+
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
DirectX® 11
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
N/A
1.2
OpenGL
3.3
4.4
Shader Model
4.1
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
-
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
-
1
DDMA audio
-
-
Enduro
-
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerPlay
-
+
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-