Radeon R7 350 vs ATI HD 3850

Aggregate performance score

We've compared Radeon HD 3850 and Radeon R7 350, covering specs and all relevant benchmarks.

ATI HD 3850
2007
1 GB GDDR3, 75 Watt
1.02

R7 350 outperforms ATI HD 3850 by a whopping 447% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1102601
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.02no data
Power efficiency0.957.07
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code nameRV670Cape Verde
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date19 November 2007 (17 years ago)6 July 2016 (8 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$179 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores320512
Core clock speed668 MHz800 MHz
Number of transistors666 million1,500 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Watt55 Watt
Texture fill rate10.6925.60
Floating-point processing power0.4275 TFLOPS0.8192 TFLOPS
ROPs1616
TMUs1632

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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length208 mm168 mm
Width1-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinNone

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 typeGDDR3GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount1 GB2 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed830 MHz1125 MHz
Memory bandwidth53.12 GB/s72 GB/s

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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-Video1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.1 (10_1)12 (11_1)
Shader Model4.15.1
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCLN/A1.2
VulkanN/A1.2.131

Gaming performance

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

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 1.02 5.58
Recency 19 November 2007 6 July 2016
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 2 GB
Chip lithography 55 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 75 Watt 55 Watt

R7 350 has a 447.1% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 8 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 96.4% more advanced lithography process, and 36.4% lower power consumption.

The Radeon R7 350 is our recommended choice as it beats the Radeon HD 3850 in performance tests.


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