Radeon HD 3850 AGP vs Radeon HD 3650

Radeon HD 3850 AGP
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 3 Jan 2008
Radeon HD 3850 AGP
Radeon HD 3650
Memory: 256Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 20 Jan 2008
Radeon HD 3650

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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 3650

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 3850 AGP

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 3850 AGP

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 3850 AGPRadeon HD 3650
GPU NameRV670 (RV670 PRO)vsRV635 (RV635 PRO)
Fab Process55 nmvs55 nm
Die Size192 mm²vs135 mm²
Transistors666 millionvs378 million
Shaders320vs120
Compute Units4vs3
Core clock668 MHzvs725 MHz
ROPs16vs4
TMUs16vs8

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 3850 AGPRadeon HD 3650
Memory TypeGDDR3vsGDDR3
Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed828 MHz
1656 MHz effective
vs800 MHz
1600 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs256 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 3850 AGPRadeon HD 3650
TDP75 wattsvs65 watts
Release Date3 Jan 2008vs20 Jan 2008

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 3850 AGP
    10.70 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 3650
    2.90 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 3850 AGP
    10.70 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 3650
    5.80 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 3850 AGP
    53.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 3650
    25.60 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 3850 AGP
    427.50 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 3650
    174.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better