ATI Radeon HD 3830 vs ATI Mobility HD 545v

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1269not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency1.74no data
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code nameM93RV670
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date5 May 2010 (14 years ago)1 April 2008 (16 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 cores80320
Core clock speed680 MHz668 MHz
Number of transistors242 million666 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt75 Watt
Texture fill rate5.44010.69
Floating-point processing power0.1088 TFLOPS0.4275 TFLOPS
ROPs416
TMUs816

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).

InterfaceMXM-A (3.0)PCIe 2.0 x16
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 6-pin

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 typeGDDR3GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount512 MB256 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed750 MHz828 MHz
Memory bandwidth12 GB/s26.5 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 ConnectorsPortable Device DependentNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.1 (10_1)10.1 (10_1)
Shader Model4.14.1
OpenGL3.33.3
OpenCL1.1N/A
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 5 May 2010 1 April 2008
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 256 MB
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 75 Watt

ATI Mobility HD 545v has an age advantage of 2 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and 400% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Mobility Radeon HD 545v and Radeon HD 3830. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Mobility Radeon HD 545v is a notebook card while Radeon HD 3830 is a desktop one.


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