ATI Radeon HD 3650 AGP vs NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

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Graphics Processor

GPU model RV635 G86
GPU variant RV635 PRO (215-0682008) G86-300-A2
Architecture TeraScale Tesla
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 55 nm 80 nm
Number of transistors 378 million 210 million
Die size 135 mm² 127 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Jan 23rd, 2008 Apr 17th, 2007
Generation Radeon R600 GeForce 8
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Interface AGP 8x PCIe 1.0 x16
Reviews 28 in our database 33 in our database
Predecessor Radeon R500 PCIe GeForce 7 PCIe
Successor Radeon R700 GeForce 9
Launch price 129 USD

Clocks

GPU clock 725 MHz 459 MHz
Memory clock 500 MHz 1000 Mbps effective 400 MHz 800 Mbps effective
Shader clock 918 MHz

Memory Configuration

Memory size 512 MB 256 MB
Memory type DDR2 GDDR3
Memory bus width 128 bit 128 bit
Bandwidth 16.00 GB/s 12.80 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 120 16
TMUs 8 8
ROPs 4 4
Compute units 3
Cache L2 128 KB 32 KB
SM count 2

Performance

Pixel rate 2.900 GPixel/s 1.836 GPixel/s
Texture rate 5.800 GTexel/s 3.672 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 174.0 GFLOPS 29.38 GFLOPS

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Single-slot Single-slot
TDP 65 W 30 W
Suggested PSU 250 W 200 W
Outputs 2x DVI1x S-Video 1x DVI1x VGA1x S-Video
Power connectors None None
Board number B381 P403
Length 229 mm 9 inches

API Support & Features

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

Other Features

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