Radeon HD 3850 AGP vs Radeon HD 4520
Summary
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 3850 AGP |
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 4520 |
50 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 3850 AGP . |
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon HD 3850 AGP
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 3850 AGP | | Radeon HD 4520 | |
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GPU Name | RV670 (RV670 PRO) | vs | RV710 () |
Fab Process | 55 nm | vs | 55 nm |
Die Size | 192 mm² | vs | 73 mm² |
Transistors | 666 million | vs | 242 million |
Shaders | 320 | vs | 80 |
Compute Units | 4 | vs | 1 |
Core clock | 668 MHz | vs | 600 MHz |
ROPs | 16 | vs | 4 |
TMUs | 16 | vs | 8 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 3850 AGP | | Radeon HD 4520 | |
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Memory Type | GDDR3 | vs | DDR2 |
Bus Width | 256 bit | vs | 64 bit |
Memory Speed | 828 MHz
1656 MHz effective | vs | 400 MHz
800 MHz effective |
Memory Size | 512 Mb | vs | 512 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 3850 AGP | | Radeon HD 4520 | |
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TDP | 75 watts | vs | 25 watts |
Release Date | 3 Jan 2008 | vs | 2 Dec 2009 |
Radeon HD 3850 AGP
10.70 GP/s
Radeon HD 4520
2.40 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon HD 3850 AGP
10.70 GT/s
Radeon HD 4520
4.80 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon HD 3850 AGP
53.00 GB/s
Radeon HD 4520
6.40 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon HD 3850 AGP
427.50 GFLOPs
Radeon HD 4520
96.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better