ATI Radeon HD 3850 AGP vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

VS

ATI Radeon HD 3850 AGP

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3850 AGP and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 3850 AGP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 165W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1216MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 52.99GB/s)

1728 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 3850 AGP

0.428 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 +1063%

4.981 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3850 AGP

VS

GeForce GTX 980

Graphics Card

Jan 2008

Release Date

Sep 2014

Radeon R600

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

AGP 8x

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1127 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1216 MHz

828 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

52.99GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

-

320

Shading Units

2048

16

TMUs

128

16

ROPs

64

-

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

10.69 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

77.82 GPixel/s

10.69 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

155.6 GTexel/s

-

427.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.981 TFLOPS

85.50 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

155.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

165W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

RV670

GPU Name

GM204

RV670 PRO (215-0708003)

GPU Variant

GM204-400-A1

TeraScale

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.666 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

192 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

4.1

Shader Model

6.4

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