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
Moblity Radeon HD 3000 Series

Mobility Radeon HD 3850 X2 640@580MHz

CodenameM88 CF
Pipelines640 - unified
Core Speed *580 MHz
Shader Speed *580 MHz
Memory Speed *750 MHz
Memory Bus Width256 Bit
Memory TypeGDDR3
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 (49%)     max: 12800 Points
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Game Benchmarks

The following benchmarks stem from our benchmarks of review laptops. The performance depends on the used graphics memory, clock rate, processor, system settings, drivers, and operating systems. So the results don't have to be representative for all laptops with this GPU. For detailled information on the benchmark results, click on the fps number.

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Class 2
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GeForce GT 430
Radeon HD 7590M *
Radeon HD 7660G
Radeon HD 5570
Radeon HD 7650M
Radeon HD 6550D *
Radeon HD 7640G
GeForce GT 220
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Class 3
Radeon HD 4350
GeForce G 107M *
Chrome9HD *
Class 4
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Class 6
SGX543MP2 *
Mali-400 MP *
PowerVR SGX540 *
PowerVR SGX535
unknown *

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Author: Klaus Hinum (Update: 2012-01-25)