Switch GPU and Radeon HD 3850 X3 - video card comparison

Switch GPU

Radeon HD 3850 X3

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)

TeraScale (2005−2013)

GPU code name

GM20B

RV670

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

March 2017

Interface

IGP

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

1x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

768 MHz

Core clock speed

669 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

20 nm

55 nm

Number of transistors

2,000 million

666 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

256

320

Power consumption (TDP)

15 Watt

145 Watt

Texture fill rate

12.29

10.70

Memory type

DDR4

GDDR3

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

512 MB

Memory bus width

64 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

3200 MHz

1700 MBps

Memory bandwidth

25.6 GB/s

54.4 GB/s

Display Connectors

No outputs

4x DVI

DirectX

12 (12_1)

10.1 (10_1)

CUDA

5.3

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

3.3 (full) Shader Model6.44.1

Vulkan

1.1.126

N/A