ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850 vs NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS

What is the difference between ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850 and NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS. Find out which graphics card has better performance.

Graphics Processor (GPU)

M88GPU NameG71
TeraScaleArchitectureCurie
TSMCFoundryTSMC
55 nmProcess Size90 nm
666 millionTransistors278 million
192 mm²Die Size196 mm²

Graphics Card

Jun 4th, 2008Release DateMay 1st, 2006
M8x
(Mobility HD 3800)
FamilyGeForce 7 PCIe
(7900)
End-of-lifeProductionEnd-of-life
M7xPredecessorGeForce 6 PCIe
PCIe 2.0 x16Bus InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16

Memory

512 MBMemory Size256 MB
GDDR3Memory TypeGDDR3
256 bitMemory Bus256 bit
48.00 GB/sBandwidth42.24 GB/s

Performance

9.280 GPixel/sPixel fillrate7.200 GPixel/s
9.280 GTexel/sTexture fillrate9.000 GTexel/s

Clock Speeds

750 MHz
1500 Mbps effective
Memory Clock660 MHz
1320 Mbps effective
580 MHzGPU Clock450 MHz

Render Config

16TMUs20
16ROPs16

Board Design

35 WThermal design power (TDP)49 W
No outputsDisplay Connectors2x DVI
1x S-Video

API support

10.1 (10_1)DirectX9.0c (9_3)
3.3OpenGL2.1
N/AOpenCLN/A
N/AVulkanN/A
4.1Shader Model3.0