Quadro FX 3800 vs Radeon R5 Bristol Ridge

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between Quadro FX 3800 and Radeon R5 Bristol Ridge, there are a couple of things to consider. Cards with more VRAM in general perform better and allow you to play on higher graphics settings. Size also makes a difference. A model with a large heatsink can occupy up to three expansion slots on a motherboard. Be sure you have enough room in your PC case. When comparing GPUs with different architectures, more processing cores and even higher TFLOPS will not always translate to better performance. To help you decide which GPU you need, we have measured frame rates in a number of popular games. For more on how the Quadro FX 3800 stacks up against Radeon R5 Bristol Ridge, check out specs charts below.

Radeon R5 Bristol Ridge is a Laptop Graphics Card

Note: Radeon R5 Bristol Ridge is only used in laptop graphics. It has lower GPU clock speed compared to the desktop variant, which results in lower power consumption, but also 10-30% lower gaming performance. Check available laptop models with Radeon R5 Bristol Ridge here:

Main Specs

  Quadro FX 3800 Radeon R5 Bristol Ridge
Power consumption (TDP) 108 Watt 12-45 Watt
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin
Memory type GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB
Display Connectors 1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort
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  • Quadro FX 3800 has 800% more power consumption, than Radeon R5 Bristol Ridge.
  • Quadro FX 3800 is used in Desktops, and Radeon R5 Bristol Ridge - in Laptops.
  • Quadro FX 3800 is build with Tesla 2.0 architecture, and Radeon R5 Bristol Ridge - with GCN 1.2/2.0.
  • Quadro FX 3800 is manufactured by 55 nm process technology, and Radeon R5 Bristol Ridge - by 28 nm process technology.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 0−1 3−4
ultra / 1080p 0−1 1−2
QHD / 1440p 0−1 0−1
low / 720p 10−11 14−16
medium / 1080p 1−2 5−6
The average gaming FPS of Radeon R5 Bristol Ridge in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 66% more, than Quadro FX 3800.

Full Specs

  Quadro FX 3800 Radeon R5 Bristol Ridge
Architecture Tesla 2.0 GCN 1.2/2.0
Code name GT200B Bristol Ridge
Type Workstation Laptop
Release date 30 March 2009 1 June 2016
Pipelines 192 384
Core clock speed 600 MHz
Boost Clock 800 MHz
Transistor count 1,400 million 3100 Million
Manufacturing process technology 55 nm 28 nm
Texture fill rate 38.40
Floating-point performance 462.3 gflops
Length 198 mm
Memory bus width 256 Bit 64/128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1600 MHz
Memory bandwidth 51.2 GB/s
Shared memory +
DirectX 11.1 (10_0) DirectX 12 (FL 12_0)
Shader Model 4.0
OpenGL 3.3
OpenCL 1.1
Vulkan N/A
CUDA 1.3
Laptop size medium sized
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