Radeon R3 Graphics vs ATI HD 5850

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking621not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.65no data
Power efficiency2.34no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code nameCypressBeema
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date30 September 2009 (15 years ago)28 January 2015 (9 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 cores1440128
Core clock speed725 MHz267 MHz
Boost clock speedno data600 MHz
Number of transistors2,154 million930 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)151 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate52.204.800
Floating-point processing power2.088 TFLOPS0.1536 TFLOPS
ROPs324
TMUs728

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 x16IGP
Length241 mmno data
Width2-slotIGP
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 typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount1 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width256 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1000 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth128.0 GB/sno data

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 outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 (12_0)
Shader Model5.06.3
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.22.0
VulkanN/A1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 30 September 2009 28 January 2015
Chip lithography 40 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 151 Watt 15 Watt

R3 Graphics has an age advantage of 5 years, a 42.9% more advanced lithography process, and 906.7% lower power consumption.

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