Mobility Radeon HD 3850 X2: specs and benchmarks
Summary
ATI started Mobility Radeon HD 3850 X2 sales 4 June 2008. This is a laptop graphics card based on a TeraScale architecture and made with 55 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamers. 512 MB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 0.75 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 48 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a graphics card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. Power consumption is at 70 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about Mobility Radeon HD 3850 X2: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | TeraScale (2005−2013) | |
| GPU code name | M88 | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Release date | 4 June 2008 (16 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
Mobility Radeon HD 3850 X2's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Mobility Radeon HD 3850 X2's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 320 | of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| Core clock speed | 580 MHz | of 2670 MHz (Arc B580) |
| Number of transistors | 666 million | of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 55 nm | of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 70 Watt | of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 9.280 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Floating-point processing power | 0.3712 TFLOPS | of 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| ROPs | 16 | of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX) |
| TMUs | 16 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Mobility Radeon HD 3850 X2 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Laptop size | large | |
| Interface | PCIe 2.0 x16 |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on Mobility Radeon HD 3850 X2: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | GDDR3 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 512 MB | of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 256 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 750 MHz | of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 48 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Shared memory | - |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on Mobility Radeon HD 3850 X2. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | No outputs |
API compatibility
APIs supported by Mobility Radeon HD 3850 X2, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 10.1 (10_1) | |
| Shader Model | 4.1 | |
| OpenGL | 3.3 | of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090) |
| OpenCL | N/A | |
| Vulkan | N/A |
NVIDIA equivalent
According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Mobility Radeon HD 3850 X2 is GeForce GTX 280M.
Similar GPUs
Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
