NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs ATI Radeon HD 5550

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

ATI Radeon HD 5550

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 5550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1725MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

5568 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 5550 's Advantages

Lower TDP (39W vs 220W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3070 +5669%

20.31 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5550

0.352 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070

VS

Radeon HD 5550

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

Feb 2010

GeForce 30

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1500 MHz

Base Clock

-

1725 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

4

46

SM Count

-

5888

Shading Units

320

184

TMUs

16

96

ROPs

8

184

Tensor Cores

-

46

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

165.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

317.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.800 GTexel/s

20.31 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

20.31 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

352.0 GFLOPS

317.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

220W

TDP

39W

550 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

Redwood

GA104-300-A1

GPU Variant

Redwood PRO2

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale 2

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

0.627 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

104 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.0

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