ATI Radeon HD 3850 AGP
VS
AMD Radeon R9 M485X
ATI Radeon HD 3850 AGP
VS
AMD Radeon R9 M485X

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards ATI Radeon HD 3850 AGP and AMD Radeon R9 M485X. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

900
Place in performance rating
260
TeraScale
Architecture
GCN 3
RV670
Code name
Amethyst
Desktop
Type
Laptop
3 January 2008 (13 years ago)
Release date
14 May 2016 (5 years ago)
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Price now
$2500
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Value for money
0.72
RV670
GPU code name
Amethyst
Desktop
Market segment
Laptop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between ATI Radeon HD 3850 AGP and AMD Radeon R9 M485X based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

320
Pipelines
2048
668 MHz
Core clock speed
723 MHz
666 million
Transistor count
5,000 million
55 nm
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
75 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
250 Watt
10.69
Texture fill rate
92.54
427.5 gflops
Floating-point performance
2,961 gflops
320
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2048
666 million
Number of transistors
5,000 million
75 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)
250 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the ATI Radeon HD 3850 AGP and AMD Radeon R9 M485X.

AGP 8x
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
1x 8-pin
Supplementary power connectors
None
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Laptop size
large

Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics ATI Radeon HD 3850 AGP and AMD Radeon R9 M485X can be seen in this section.

GDDR3
Memory type
GDDR5
512 MB
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB MB
256 Bit
Memory bus width
256 Bit
1656 MHz
Memory clock speed
5000 MHz
52.99 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
160.0 GB/s
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Shared memory
-

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards ATI Radeon HD 3850 AGP and AMD Radeon R9 M485X, the size and number of monitors.

2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Display Connectors
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Technologies

The difference between ATI Radeon HD 3850 AGP and AMD Radeon R9 M485X is the additional functionality.

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Enduro
+

API support

The difference in supported APIs is ATI Radeon HD 3850 AGP and AMD Radeon R9 M485X. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

10.1 (10_1)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
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Vulkan
+

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for ATI Radeon HD 3850 AGP and AMD Radeon R9 M485X graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the ATI Radeon HD 3850 AGP or AMD Radeon R9 M485X good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) ATI Radeon HD 3850 AGP
AMD Radeon R9 M485X
Death Stranding (2020) ATI Radeon HD 3850 AGP
AMD Radeon R9 M485X
F1 2020 (2020) ATI Radeon HD 3850 AGP
AMD Radeon R9 M485X
Gears Tactics (2020) ATI Radeon HD 3850 AGP
AMD Radeon R9 M485X
Doom Eternal (2020) ATI Radeon HD 3850 AGP
AMD Radeon R9 M485X
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of ATI Radeon HD 3850 AGP

Less power consumption (75 Watt vs 250 Watt)

More maximum RAM amount (512 MB vs 8 GB MB)

Advantages of AMD Radeon R9 M485X

20.42% faster in synthetic tests

More pipelines (2048 vs 320)

Finer manufacturing process technology (28 nm vs 55 nm)

More memory bandwidth (160.0 GB/s vs 52.99 GB/s)

So, ATI Radeon HD 3850 AGP or AMD Radeon R9 M485X?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend AMD Radeon R9 M485X .

ATI Radeon HD 3850 AGP versus AMD Radeon R9 M485X performance benchmarks comparison

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