Radeon HD 3850 X2 vs Radeon HD 5570

Radeon HD 3850 X2
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 4 Apr 2008
Radeon HD 3850 X2
Radeon HD 5570
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 11 Oct 2011
Radeon HD 5570

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon HD 3850 X2
    221%
  • Radeon HD 5570
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 3850 X2

Around 121% higher average synthetic performance.
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5570

101 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 3850 X2 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 3850 X2

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 3850 X2

The Radeon HD 3850 X2 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 3850 X2Radeon HD 5570
GPU NameRV670 (RV670 PRO)vsTurks (Turks LE)
Fab Process55 nmvs40 nm
Die Size192 mm²vs118 mm²
Transistors666 millionvs716 million
Shaders320vs320
Compute Units4vs4
Core clock669 MHzvs650 MHz
ROPs16vs4
TMUs16vs16

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 3850 X2Radeon HD 5570
Memory TypeGDDR3vsGDDR3
Bus Width256 bit x2vs128 bit
Memory Speed828 MHz
1656 MHz effective
vs500 MHz
1000 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 3850 X2Radeon HD 5570
TDP140 wattsvs39 watts
Release Date4 Apr 2008vs11 Oct 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 3850 X2
    21.40 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 5570
    2.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 3850 X2
    21.40 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 5570
    10.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 3850 X2
    106.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 5570
    16.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 3850 X2
    856.40 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 5570
    416.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon HD 3850 X2
    2440
  • Radeon HD 5570
    1100

Points (higher is better)