Radeon HD 3850
The core contains 320 active ALUs, assembled into 64 superscalar computing units of 5 ALUs + a branch control unit in each. It also includes 4 texture processors, equivalent to 16 TMUs, 4 raster operations processors, or, in ATI terms, render-back ends, approximately equivalent to 16 ROPs, as well as a Compositing Engine, which is necessary for the CrossFire hardware mode to function. Like its older brother, the ATI Radeon HD 3850 has two CrossFire connectors and can be used to assemble a multi-GPU complex consisting of four such cards.
The card is equipped with a standard set of connectors. It includes two dual-link DVI-I ports with HDCP support and 2560x1600 resolution and a universal seven-pin mini-DIN port responsible for organizing analog video output in Composite, S-Video or YPbPr formats. VIVO functionality, like the ATI Radeon HD 3870, is missing and there is no space for the corresponding chip on the board, but a more relevant possibility today, digital audio output via the HDMI interface is fully supported using a special DVI-I-adapter. >HDMI. Combining today's best UVD video processor, HDMI audio output support, single-slot cooling system form factor, and low power consumption,
Specifications ATI Radeon HD 3850
| Name | Radeon HD 3850 |
| Core | RV670 |
| Process technology (µm) | 0.055 |
| Transistors (million) | 666 |
| Core frequency | 670 |
| Memory frequency (DDR) | 828 (1656) |
| Bus and memory type | GDDR3 256 Bit |
| Bandwidth (Gb/s) | 52.992 |
| Unified shader blocks | 320 |
| Frequency of unified shader units | 670 |
| TMU per conveyor | 16 (total) |
| ROP | 16 |
| textures per clock | 16 |
| textures per pass | 16 |
| Shader Model | 4.1 |
| Fill Rate (Mpix/s) | 10688 |
| Fill Rate (Mtex/s) | 10688 |
| DirectX | 10.1 |
| Anti-Aliasing (Max) | MS-24x |
| Anisotropic Filtering (Max) | 16x |
| Memory | 256/512 |
| Interface | PCI-E 2.0 |
| RAMDAC | 2x400 |
This card delivered good performance for the price and is now a good fast budget gaming solution.