Radeon RX Vega Mobile vs ATI HD 3850

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1104not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.04no data
Power efficiency0.93no data
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)Vega (2017−2020)
GPU code nameRV670Vega Mobile
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date19 November 2007 (17 years ago)7 January 2018 (6 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 cores3201792
Core clock speed668 MHzno data
Number of transistors666 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology55 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Watt90 Watt
Texture fill rate10.69no data
Floating-point processing power0.4275 TFLOPSno data
ROPs16no data
TMUs16no 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 sizeno datamedium sized
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16no data
Length208 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinno 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 typeGDDR3HBM2
Maximum RAM amount1 GB4 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit2048 Bit
Memory clock speed830 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth53.12 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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-Videono data

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.1 (10_1)12_1
Shader Model4.1no data
OpenGL3.3no data
OpenCLN/Ano data
VulkanN/A-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 19 November 2007 7 January 2018
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 55 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 75 Watt 90 Watt

ATI HD 3850 has 20% lower power consumption.

RX Vega Mobile, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 10 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 292.9% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 3850 and Radeon RX Vega Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 3850 is a desktop card while Radeon RX Vega Mobile is a notebook one.


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