ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600

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Graphics Processor

GPU model M88 G80
Architecture TeraScale Tesla
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 55 nm 90 nm
Number of transistors 666 million 681 million
Die size 192 mm² 484 mm²
GPU variant G80-850-A2

Mobile graphics

Release date Jun 4th, 2008
Generation M8x (Mobility HD 3800)
Production End-of-life
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16
Reviews 2 in our database
Predecessor M7x
Successor M9x

Clocks

GPU clock 580 MHz 500 MHz
Memory clock 750 MHz 1500 Mbps effective 700 MHz 1400 Mbps effective
Shader clock 1200 MHz

Memory Configuration

Memory size 512 MB 768 MB
Memory type GDDR3 GDDR3
Memory bus width 256 bit 384 bit
Bandwidth 48.00 GB/s 67.20 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 320 96
TMUs 16 24
ROPs 16 24
Compute units 4
Cache L2 256 KB 96 KB
SM count 12

Performance

Pixel rate 9.280 GPixel/s 12.00 GPixel/s
Texture rate 9.280 GTexel/s 24.00 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 371.2 GFLOPS 230.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 74.24 GFLOPS (1:5)

Dimensions & Outputs

TDP 35 W 134 W
Outputs No outputs 2x DVI1x S-Video
Slot width Dual-slot
Length 229 mm 9 inches
Width 111 mm 4.4 inches
Suggested PSU 300 W
Power connectors 1x 6-pin
Board number P356

API Support & Features

DirectX 10.1 (10_1) 11.1 (10_0)
OpenGL 3.3 3.3
OpenCL 1.1 (1.0)
Vulkan
Shader model 4.1 4.0
CUDA 1.0

Other Features

Graphics Card

Release date Mar 5th, 2007
Generation Quadro FX
Production End-of-life
Launch price 1,999 USD
Interface PCIe 1.0 x16
Reviews 26 in our database

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