AMD Radeon 550 vs ATI Radeon HD 3730

VS

AMD Radeon 550 ATI Radeon HD 3730

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 550 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3730 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 550 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1183MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (56.00GB/s vs 12.67GB/s)

392 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 65W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 550 +600%

1.211 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3730

0.173 TFLOPS

Radeon 550

VS

Radeon HD 3730

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Oct 2008

Polaris

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

-

1183 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

396 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

56.00GB/s

Bandwidth

12.67GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

8

Compute Units

3

512

Shading Units

120

32

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.888 GPixel/s

37.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.776 GTexel/s

1211 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1211 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

173.3 GFLOPS

75.71 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

RV635

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

RV635 PRO (215-0682008)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

TeraScale

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

0.378 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

135 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

65W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

4.1

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