NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 vs ATI Radeon HD 3550

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670

ATI Radeon HD 3550

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 670 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock980MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 6.336GB/s)

1304 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 3550 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 670 +5387%

2.634 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3550

0.048 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 670

VS

Radeon HD 3550

Graphics Card

May 2012

Release Date

Aug 2008

GeForce 600

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

915 MHz

Base Clock

-

980 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

396 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

192.3GB/s

Bandwidth

6.336GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

2

-

1344

Shading Units

40

112

TMUs

4

32

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

27.44 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.376 GPixel/s

109.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.376 GTexel/s

-

2.634 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

47.52 GFLOPS

109.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

170W

TDP

30W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DisplayPort

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

RV620

GK104-325-A2

GPU Variant

RV620 PRO (215-0670006)

Kepler

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

0.181 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.1

Vulkan

N/A

3.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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