GMA vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	1237	1604
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	1.50	no data
Architecture	TeraScale (2005−2013)	PowerVR SGX545 (2008−2010)
GPU code name	M88	Cloverview
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Release date	4 June 2008 (17 years ago)	4 May 2010 (15 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 cores	320	no data
Core clock speed	580 MHz	533 MHz
Number of transistors	666 million	no data
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	32 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	35 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	9.280	1.066
Floating-point processing power	0.3712 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	16	1
TMUs	16	2
L2 Cache	256 KB	no data

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 size	large	no data
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 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 type	GDDR3	System Shared
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	System Shared
Memory bus width	256 Bit	System Shared
Memory clock speed	750 MHz	System Shared
Memory bandwidth	48 GB/s	no data
Shared memory	-	+

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display Connectors

No outputs

No outputs

API and SDK support

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

DirectX	10.1 (10_1)	9.0c
Shader Model	4.1	3.0
OpenGL	3.3	ES 2.0
OpenCL	N/A	N/A
Vulkan	N/A	N/A

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

FPS performance in popular games

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	4 June 2008	4 May 2010
Chip lithography	55 nm	32 nm