Radeon HD 3850 AGP vs Radeon HD 5570

Radeon HD 3850 AGP
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 3 Jan 2008
Radeon HD 3850 AGP
Radeon HD 5570
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 11 Oct 2011
Radeon HD 5570

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 3850 AGP

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5570

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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

No clear winner declared

We have no data to declare a winner at this time.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 3850 AGPRadeon HD 5570
GPU NameRV670 (RV670 PRO)vsTurks (Turks LE)
Fab Process55 nmvs40 nm
Die Size192 mm²vs118 mm²
Transistors666 millionvs716 million
Shaders320vs320
Compute Units4vs4
Core clock668 MHzvs650 MHz
ROPs16vs4
TMUs16vs16

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 3850 AGPRadeon HD 5570
Memory TypeGDDR3vsGDDR3
Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed828 MHz
1656 MHz effective
vs500 MHz
1000 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 3850 AGPRadeon HD 5570
TDP75 wattsvs39 watts
Release Date3 Jan 2008vs11 Oct 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 3850 AGP
    10.70 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 5570
    2.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 3850 AGP
    10.70 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 5570
    10.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 3850 AGP
    53.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 5570
    16.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 3850 AGP
    427.50 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 5570
    416.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better