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Radeon HD 3850 512MB vs Radeon RX 580

Intro

The Radeon HD 3850 512MB features clock speeds of 668 MHz on the GPU, and 828 MHz on the 512 MB of GDDR3 memory. It features 320(64x5) SPUs as well as 16 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 580, which makes use of a 14 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 1257 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a frequency of 2000 MHz on this specific model. It features 2304 SPUs along with 144 TAUs and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 3850 512MB 75 Watts
Radeon RX 580 185 Watts
Difference: 110 Watts (147%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 580 is 395% quicker than the Radeon HD 3850 512MB overall, due to its higher data rate. (explain)

Radeon RX 580 262144 MB/sec
Radeon HD 3850 512MB 52992 MB/sec
Difference: 209152 (395%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 580 is quite a bit (about 1594%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon HD 3850 512MB. (explain)

Radeon RX 580 181008 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 3850 512MB 10688 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 170320 (1594%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon RX 580 is superior to the Radeon HD 3850 512MB, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX 580 40224 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 3850 512MB 10688 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 29536 (276%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

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Model Radeon HD 3850 512MB Radeon RX 580
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year Nov 19, 2007 April 2017
Code Name RV670 PRO Polaris 20
Memory 512 MB 8192 MB
Core Speed 668 MHz 1257 MHz
Memory Speed 1656 MHz 8000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 75 watts 185 watts
Bandwidth 52992 MB/sec 262144 MB/sec
Texel Rate 10688 Mtexels/sec 181008 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 10688 Mpixels/sec 40224 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 320(64x5) 2304
Texture Mapping Units 16 144
Render Output Units 16 32
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 55 nm 14 nm
Transistors (Unknown) million 5700 million
Bus PCIe 2.0 x16/AGP 8x PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10.1 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.

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