Radeon HD 3850 AGP vs Radeon HD 4650 AGP

Radeon HD 3850 AGP
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 3 Jan 2008
Radeon HD 3850 AGP
Radeon HD 4650 AGP
Memory: 512Mb DDR2DESKTOP
Release date: 10 Sep 2008
Radeon HD 4650 AGP
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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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 4650 AGP

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 4650 AGP
GPU NameRV670 (RV670 PRO)vsRV730 (RV730 PRO)
Fab Process55 nmvs55 nm
Die Size192 mm²vs146 mm²
Transistors666 millionvs514 million
Shaders320vs320
Compute Units4vs4
Core clock668 MHzvs600 MHz
ROPs16vs8
TMUs16vs32

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 3850 AGPRadeon HD 4650 AGP
Memory TypeGDDR3vsDDR2
Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed828 MHz
1656 MHz effective
vs400 MHz
800 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs512 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 3850 AGPRadeon HD 4650 AGP
TDP75 wattsvs48 watts
Release Date3 Jan 2008vs10 Sep 2008

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 3850 AGP
    10.70 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 4650 AGP
    4.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 3850 AGP
    10.70 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 4650 AGP
    19.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 3850 AGP
    53.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 4650 AGP
    12.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 3850 AGP
    427.50 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 4650 AGP
    384.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better