NVIDIA A16 PCIe vs ATI Radeon HD 3550

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM A16 PCIe and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA A16 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1695MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (231.9GB/s vs 6.336GB/s)

1240 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 3550 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

A16 PCIe +8939%

4.339 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3550

0.048 TFLOPS

A16 PCIe

VS

Radeon HD 3550

Graphics Card

Apr 2021

Release Date

Aug 2008

Tesla

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

885 MHz

Base Clock

-

1695 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1812 MHz

Memory Clock

396 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

231.9GB/s

Bandwidth

6.336GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

-

Compute Units

2

1280

Shading Units

40

TMUs

4

32

ROPs

4

40

Tensor Cores

-

10

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

54.24 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.376 GPixel/s

67.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.376 GTexel/s

4.339 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.339 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

47.52 GFLOPS

135.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

RV620

-

GPU Variant

RV620 PRO (215-0670006)

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

55 nm

Unknown

Transistors

0.181 billion

Unknown

Die Size

67 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

30W

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

No outputs

Outputs

2x DisplayPort

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

4.1

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