Radeon HD 3850 AGP vs GeForce 210
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| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 GeForce 210 |
| 44 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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
| PhysX support, however PhysX performance on newest games may be poor |
HWBench recommends Radeon HD 3850 AGP
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 3850 AGP | | GeForce 210 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | RV670 (RV670 PRO) | vs | GT218 (GT218-300-B1) |
| Fab Process | 55 nm | vs | 40 nm |
| Die Size | 192 mm² | vs | 57 mm² |
| Transistors | 666 million | vs | 260 million |
| Shaders | 320 | vs | 16 |
| Compute Units | 4 | vs | 2 |
| Core clock | 668 MHz | vs | 520 MHz |
| ROPs | 16 | vs | 4 |
| TMUs | 16 | vs | 8 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 3850 AGP | | GeForce 210 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR3 | vs | DDR3 |
| 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 | | GeForce 210 | |
|---|
| TDP | 75 watts | vs | 31 watts |
| Release Date | 3 Jan 2008 | vs | 12 Oct 2009 |
Radeon HD 3850 AGP
10.70 GP/s
GeForce 210
2.08 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon HD 3850 AGP
10.70 GT/s
GeForce 210
4.16 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon HD 3850 AGP
53.00 GB/s
GeForce 210
6.40 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon HD 3850 AGP
427.50 GFLOPs
GeForce 210
39.36 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better