ATI Radeon HD 3850 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 330

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Graphics Processor

GPU model RV670 NV37
GPU variant RV670 PRO (215-0708003) NV37 GL
Architecture TeraScale Rankine
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 55 nm 150 nm
Number of transistors 666 million 45 million
Die size 192 mm² 91 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Nov 19th, 2007 Jun 28th, 2004
Generation Radeon R600 Quadro FX
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Launch price 179 USD
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Reviews 71 in our database 26 in our database
Predecessor Radeon R500 PCIe
Successor Radeon R700

Clocks

GPU clock 668 MHz 250 MHz
Memory clock 830 MHz 1660 Mbps effective 200 MHz 400 Mbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 512 MB 64 MB
Memory type GDDR3 DDR2
Memory bus width 256 bit 64 bit
Bandwidth 53.12 GB/s 3.200 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 320
TMUs 16 4
ROPs 16 4
Compute units 4
Cache L2 256 KB
Pixel shaders 4
Vertex shaders 2

Performance

Pixel rate 10.69 GPixel/s 1.000 GPixel/s
Texture rate 10.69 GTexel/s 1.000 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 427.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 85.50 GFLOPS (1:5)
Vertex rate 125.0 MVertices/s

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Single-slot Single-slot
Length 208 mm 8.2 inches 168 mm 6.6 inches
TDP 75 W 21 W
Suggested PSU 250 W 200 W
Outputs 2x DVI1x S-Video 1x DVI
Power connectors 1x 6-pin None
Board number B340, B400
Width 69 mm 2.7 inches

API Support & Features

DirectX 10.1 (10_1) 9.0a
OpenGL 3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial) 1.5 (2.1)
OpenCL
Vulkan
Shader model 4.1
Pixel shader 2.0a
Vertex shader 2.0a

Other Features

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