GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850 X2

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated165
Place by popularitynot in top-10090
Power efficiencyno data28.11
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameM88GA106
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date4 June 2008 (16 years ago)12 January 2021 (3 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores3203840
Core clock speed580 MHz900 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1425 MHz
Number of transistors666 million13,250 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)70 Watt80 Watt
Texture fill rate9.280171.0
Floating-point processing power0.3712 TFLOPS10.94 TFLOPS
ROPs1648
TMUs16120
Tensor Coresno data120
Ray Tracing Coresno data30

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizelargelarge
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR3GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount512 MB6 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed750 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth48 GB/s336.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX10.1 (10_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model4.16.5
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCLN/A2.0
VulkanN/A1.2
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 4 June 2008 12 January 2021
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 6 GB
Chip lithography 55 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 70 Watt 80 Watt

ATI Mobility HD 3850 X2 has 14.3% lower power consumption.

RTX 3060 Mobile, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 12 years, a 1100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 587.5% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Mobility Radeon HD 3850 X2 and GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.


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ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850 X2
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