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GeForce GTX 860M vs Radeon HD 3850 512MB

Intro

The GeForce GTX 860M comes with core clock speeds of 797 MHz on the GPU, and 1000 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 1152 SPUs as well as 96 Texture Address Units and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare all of that to the Radeon HD 3850 512MB, which has a GPU core clock speed of 668 MHz, and 512 MB of GDDR3 memory running at 828 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is comprised of 320(64x5) Stream Processors, 16 Texture Address Units, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 860M 45 Watts
Radeon HD 3850 512MB 75 Watts
Difference: 30 Watts (67%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 860M should perform quite a bit faster than the Radeon HD 3850 512MB in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 860M 64000 MB/sec
Radeon HD 3850 512MB 52992 MB/sec
Difference: 11008 (21%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 860M is much (about 616%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon HD 3850 512MB. (explain)

GeForce GTX 860M 76512 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 3850 512MB 10688 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 65824 (616%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 860M should be just a bit (approximately 19%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the Radeon HD 3850 512MB, and also capable of handling higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce GTX 860M 12752 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 3850 512MB 10688 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 2064 (19%)

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 GeForce GTX 860M Radeon HD 3850 512MB
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year March 12 2014 Nov 19, 2007
Code Name GM107 RV670 PRO
Memory 4096 MB 512 MB
Core Speed 797 MHz 668 MHz
Memory Speed 4000 MHz 1656 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 45 watts 75 watts
Bandwidth 64000 MB/sec 52992 MB/sec
Texel Rate 76512 Mtexels/sec 10688 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 12752 Mpixels/sec 10688 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 1152 320(64x5)
Texture Mapping Units 96 16
Render Output Units 16 16
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR3
Bus Width 128-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 55 nm
Transistors (Unknown) million (Unknown) million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16/AGP 8x
DirectX Version DirectX 12 DirectX 10.1
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.5 OpenGL 3.0

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's 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 texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 860M

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Radeon HD 3850 512MB

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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