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ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850 X2

The ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850 X2 is a notebook graphics solution by AMD that consists out of two Mobility Radeon HD 3850 chips in crossfire combination. Both GPUs each render a different frame (AFR mode) to increase the performance. Still the performance advantage varies from game to game usually between 0-40%.

According to AMD the performance should be similar to a GeForce 8800M GTX SLI (better 3DMark results but slower framerates in Bioshock and Crysis). Still demanding games of 2007 like Crysis (27 fps versus 36 fps) and Bioshock (65 versus 75 fps) should be playable (altought Crysis e.g. not in highes detail settings).

The features of the X2 are similar of a single HD 3850. It also supports Avivo HD to decode HD videos (MPEG-2, VC-1, and H.264). The current consumption should be similar to two HD 3850 cards, and therefore this solution is only for big and heavy laptops.

ManufacturerATI
SeriesMoblity Radeon HD 3000
CodenameM88 CF
Pipelines640 - unified
Core Speed *580 MHz
Shader Speed *580 MHz
Memory Speed *750 MHz
Memory Bus Width256 Bit
Memory TypeGDDR3
Max. Amount of Memory
Shared Memoryno
DirectXDirectX 10.1, Shader 4.1
Current Consumption110 Watt
Transistors1332 Million
technology55 nm
FeaturesPowerplay 7.0, Avivo-HD, PCI-E 2.0, CrossfireX, 2 Dual-Link fähige HDCP DVI Ausgänge möglich, Display Port nur mit ext. Transmitter
Notebook Sizelarge
Date of Announcement05.06.2008
Link to Manufacturer Pagehttp://ati.amd.com/products/mobilityrade...
* The specified clock rates are only guidelines for the manufacturer and can be altered by them.

benchmarks

3DMark 06:
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      min: 12800, avg: 12800, max: 12800 Points
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Based on 1 benchmarks

3DMark 06 in comparison
Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 900 (min)
57 
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NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTX SLI
12184 
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M
12473 
NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTX SLI
12719 
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850 X2
12800 
NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTS SLI
12900 
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2
13316 
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2
13435 
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M SLI (max)
15019 

Game Benchmarks

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Author: Klaus Hinum (Update: 2009-09-24)