ATI Radeon HD 3850 AGP vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 550

VS

ATI Radeon HD 3850 AGP

NVIDIA Quadro FX 550

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3850 AGP and 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 3850 AGP 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (512GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (52.99GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro FX 550 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 75W)

Score

Radeon HD 3850 AGP

VS

Quadro FX 550

Graphics Card

Jan 2008

Release Date

Apr 2006

Radeon R600

Generation

Quadro FX Curie

Desktop

Type

Desktop

AGP 8x

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

828 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

128MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

52.99GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

-

320

Shading Units

-

16

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

10.69 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.440 GPixel/s

10.69 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.880 GTexel/s

-

427.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

85.50 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

75W

TDP

30W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

RV670

GPU Name

NV43

RV670 PRO (215-0708003)

GPU Variant

NV43 GL

TeraScale

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

110 nm

0.666 billion

Transistors

0.146 billion

192 mm²

Die Size

154 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

OpenGL

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

N/A

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

4.1

Shader Model

3.0

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