Radeon HD 3850 AGP vs Radeon R9 280X

The values for the video cards below are determined from thousands of PerformanceTest benchmark results and are updated daily.

The first section will show basic information for each Video Card selected.
The first graph shows the G3D Mark values of each Videocard selected.
The second graph, if price data is available, will shows the value for money, in terms of the G3DMark per dollar.

	×Radeon HD 3850 AGP	×Radeon R9 280X
Price	Search Online	Search Online
Bus Interface	AGP 8x	PCIe 3.0 x16
GPU Class	Desktop	Desktop
Core Clock	668 MHz	850 MHz
Memory Clock	830,900 MHz	1500 MHz
Maximum Memory Supported	1024 MB	3072 MB
DirectX	10.1	12.0
OpenGL	3.3	4.5
Max TDP	75W	250W
First Seen on Chart	Q2 2012	Q2 2016
# of Samples	50	5043
Average Results (% diff. to max in group)
DirectX 9	19 FPS (-79.7%)	94 FPS
DirectX 10	2 FPS (-95.1%)	32 FPS
DirectX 11	NA	35 FPS
DirectX 12	NA	30 FPS
GPU Compute	NA	2886 Ops/Sec
G2D Rating	92 (-86.6%)	686
G3D Rating	432 (-93.0%)	6211

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