ATI Radeon HD 3850
VS
NVIDIA GeForce 310M
ATI Radeon HD 3850
VS
NVIDIA GeForce 310M

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards ATI Radeon HD 3850 and NVIDIA GeForce 310M. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

907
Place in performance rating
not rated
TeraScale
Architecture
GT2xx
RV670
Code name
no data
Desktop
Type
no data
19 November 2007 (14 years ago)
Release date
10 January 2010 (11 years ago)
$179
Launch price (MSRP)
no data
$30 (0.2x MSRP)
Price now
$163
0.37
Value for money
no data
RV670
GPU code name
N11M-GE1
Desktop
Market segment
Laptop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between ATI Radeon HD 3850 and NVIDIA GeForce 310M based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

320
Pipelines
no data
668 MHz
Core clock speed
606 / 625 MHz
666 million
Transistor count
no data
55 nm
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
75 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
no data
10.69
Texture fill rate
4.848
427.5 gflops
Floating-point performance
48.96 gflops
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CUDA cores
16
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Gigaflops
73
320
Pipelines / CUDA cores
16
666 million
Number of transistors
260 million
75 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)
14 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the ATI Radeon HD 3850 and NVIDIA GeForce 310M.

PCIe 2.0 x16
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
208 mm
Length
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1x 6-pin
Supplementary power connectors
None
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Bus support
PCI-E 2.0

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 and NVIDIA GeForce 310M can be seen in this section.

GDDR3
Memory type
GDDR3, DDR3
1 GB
Maximum RAM amount
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256 Bit
Memory bus width
64 Bit
1660 MHz
Memory clock speed
no data
53.12 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
10.67 GB/s
no data
Shared memory
-

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards ATI Radeon HD 3850 and NVIDIA GeForce 310M, the size and number of monitors.

2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Display Connectors
DisplayPortHDMIVGADual Link DVISingle Link DVI
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Multi monitor support
+
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Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
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HDMI
+

Technologies

The difference between ATI Radeon HD 3850 and NVIDIA GeForce 310M is the additional functionality.

no data
CUDA
+
no data
Power management
8.0

API support

The difference in supported APIs is ATI Radeon HD 3850 and NVIDIA GeForce 310M. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

10.1 (10_1)
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
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Vulkan
N/A
no data
Shader Model
4.1
no data
OpenCL
1.1

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for ATI Radeon HD 3850 and NVIDIA GeForce 310M 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 or NVIDIA GeForce 310M good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) ATI Radeon HD 3850
NVIDIA GeForce 310M
Death Stranding (2020) ATI Radeon HD 3850
NVIDIA GeForce 310M
F1 2020 (2020) ATI Radeon HD 3850
NVIDIA GeForce 310M
Gears Tactics (2020) ATI Radeon HD 3850
NVIDIA GeForce 310M
Doom Eternal (2020) ATI Radeon HD 3850
NVIDIA GeForce 310M
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

1.16% faster in synthetic tests

Cheaper ($30 (0.2x MSRP) vs $163)

More memory bandwidth (53.12 GB/s vs 10.67 GB/s)

Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce 310M

Finer manufacturing process technology (40 nm vs 55 nm)

So, ATI Radeon HD 3850 or NVIDIA GeForce 310M?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend ATI Radeon HD 3850 .

ATI Radeon HD 3850 versus NVIDIA GeForce 310M performance benchmarks comparison

User rating

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