ATI Radeon HD 3850 X3 vs Tesla T10 Processor

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTesla 2.0 (2007−2013)TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code nameGT200BRV670
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date9 April 2009 (15 years ago)no data (2024 years ago)

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 cores240320
Core clock speed610 MHz669 MHz
Number of transistors1,400 million666 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)188 Watt145 Watt
Texture fill rate48.8010.70
Floating-point processing power0.6221 TFLOPSno data
ROPs3216
TMUs8016

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 2.0 x16
Length267 mm292 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 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 typeGDDR3GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount4 GB512 MB
Memory bus width512 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz1700 MBps
Memory bandwidth102.4 GB/s54.4 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 ConnectorsNo outputs4x DVI

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_0)10.1 (10_1)
Shader Model4.04.1
OpenGL3.33.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)
OpenCL1.1N/A
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA1.3-

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 512 MB
Power consumption (TDP) 188 Watt 145 Watt

Tesla T10 Processor has a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount.

ATI HD 3850 X3, on the other hand, has 29.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Tesla T10 Processor and Radeon HD 3850 X3. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Tesla T10 Processor is a workstation graphics card while Radeon HD 3850 X3 is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA Tesla T10 Processor
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