GeForce 3 Go vs ATI Radeon HD 5850

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking615not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.59no data
Power efficiency2.36no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)no data
GPU code nameCypressno data
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date30 September 2009 (15 years ago)1 February 2002 (22 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$299 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 cores1440no data
Core clock speed725 MHzno data
Boost clock speedno data250 MHz
Number of transistors2,154 million27 Million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)151 Watt2 Watt
Texture fill rate52.20no data
Floating-point processing power2.088 TFLOPSno data
ROPs32no data
TMUs72no 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
Length241 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors2x 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 typeGDDR5DDR
Maximum RAM amount1 GB64 MB
Memory bus width256 Bit32 / 64 / 128 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth128.0 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 HDMI, 1x DisplayPortno data
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

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

Pros & cons summary


Recency 30 September 2009 1 February 2002
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 64 MB
Chip lithography 40 nm 150 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 151 Watt 2 Watt

ATI HD 5850 has an age advantage of 7 years, a 1500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 275% more advanced lithography process.

GeForce 3 Go, on the other hand, has 7450% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 5850 and GeForce 3 Go. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 5850 is a desktop card while GeForce 3 Go is a notebook one.


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