ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3400 vs ATI Mobility HD 5850

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking905not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency4.44no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)RV6xx (2008−2010)
GPU code nameBroadwayno data
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date7 January 2010 (14 years ago)1 August 2010 (14 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 cores800no data
Core clock speed500 MHzno data
Number of transistors1,040 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology40 nmno data
Power consumption (TDP)30 Wattno data
Texture fill rate20.00no data
Floating-point processing power0.8 TFLOPSno data
ROPs16no data
TMUs40no 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 sizelargeno data
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16no data

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 typeGDDR5no data
Maximum RAM amount1 GBno data
Memory bus width128 Bitno data
Memory clock speed1000 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth64 GB/sno data
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 data

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)no data
Shader Model5.0no data
OpenGL4.4no data
OpenCL1.2no data
VulkanN/A-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 January 2010 1 August 2010

ATI Mobility HD 3400 has an age advantage of 6 months.

We couldn't decide between Mobility Radeon HD 5850 and Mobility Radeon HD 3400. We've got no test results to judge.


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