ATI Radeon HD 3850 X3 vs RX 7600

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	88	not rated
Place by popularity	86	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	92.54	no data
Power efficiency	18.14	no data
Architecture	RDNA 3.0 (2022−2024)	TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name	Navi 33	RV670
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	24 May 2023 (1 year ago)	no data (2024 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$269	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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 cores	2048	320
Core clock speed	1720 MHz	669 MHz
Boost clock speed	2655 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	13,300 million	666 million
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm	55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	165 Watt	145 Watt
Texture fill rate	339.8	10.70
Floating-point processing power	21.75 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	64	16
TMUs	128	16
Ray Tracing Cores	32	no 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).

Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	204 mm	292 mm
Width	2-slot	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin	1x 8-pin

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 type	GDDR6	GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	512 MB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	2250 MHz	1700 MBps
Memory bandwidth	288.0 GB/s	54.4 GB/s
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 Connectors	1x HDMI 2.1a, 3x DisplayPort 2.1	4x DVI
HDMI	+	-

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	10.1 (10_1)
Shader Model	6.7	4.1
OpenGL	4.6	3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)
OpenCL	2.2	N/A
Vulkan	1.3	N/A

Pros & cons summary

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Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	512 MB
Chip lithography	6 nm	55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	165 Watt	145 Watt

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