Radeon HD 3850 X3: specs and benchmarks

Summary

This is a desktop graphics card based on a TeraScale architecture and made with 55 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 512 MB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 1.7 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 54.4 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a dual-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 292 mm. 1x 8-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 145 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about Radeon HD 3850 X3: 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	RV670
Market segment	Desktop
Release date	no data (2024 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Radeon HD 3850 X3's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon HD 3850 X3'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	669 MHz	of 2800 MHz (Playstation 5 Pro GPU)
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)	145 Watt	of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate	10.70	of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
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 Radeon HD 3850 X3 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).

Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	292 mm
Width	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on Radeon HD 3850 X3: 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	1700 MBps	of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth	54.4 GB/s	of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon HD 3850 X3. 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

4x DVI

API compatibility

APIs supported by Radeon HD 3850 X3, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX	10.1 (10_1)
Shader Model	4.1
OpenGL	3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)	of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090)
OpenCL	N/A
Vulkan	N/A

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Radeon HD 3850 X3. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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