Radeon HD 3850 AGP vs GeForce 9800 GT

Radeon HD 3850 AGP
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 3 Jan 2008
Radeon HD 3850 AGP
GeForce 9800 GT
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 21 Jul 2008
GeForce 9800 GT

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 3850 AGP

50 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce 9800 GT .
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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 9800 GT

Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

Radeon HD 3850 AGP

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 3850 AGP

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 3850 AGPGeForce 9800 GT
GPU NameRV670 (RV670 PRO)vsG92 (G92-270-A2)
Fab Process55 nmvs65 nm
Die Size192 mm²vs324 mm²
Transistors666 millionvs754 million
Shaders320vs112
Compute Units4vs7
Core clock668 MHzvs600 MHz
ROPs16vs16
TMUs16vs56

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 3850 AGPGeForce 9800 GT
Memory TypeGDDR3vsGDDR3
Bus Width256 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed828 MHz
1656 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs512 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 3850 AGPGeForce 9800 GT
TDP75 wattsvs125 watts
Release Date3 Jan 2008vs21 Jul 2008

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 3850 AGP
    10.70 GP/s
  • GeForce 9800 GT
    9.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 3850 AGP
    10.70 GT/s
  • GeForce 9800 GT
    33.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 3850 AGP
    53.00 GB/s
  • GeForce 9800 GT
    57.60 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 3850 AGP
    427.50 GFLOPs
  • GeForce 9800 GT
    336.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better