AMD Radeon 550 vs ATI Radeon HD 4720

VS

AMD Radeon 550

ATI Radeon HD 4720

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 550 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 4720 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 550 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1183MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (56.00GB/s vs 21.34GB/s)

192 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 55W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 550 +215%

1.211 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4720

0.384 TFLOPS

Radeon 550

VS

Radeon HD 4720

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Dec 2011

Polaris

Generation

Radeon R700

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

667 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

56.00GB/s

Bandwidth

21.34GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

4

-

512

Shading Units

320

32

TMUs

32

16

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.800 GPixel/s

37.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.20 GTexel/s

1211 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1211 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

384.0 GFLOPS

75.71 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

50W

TDP

55W

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

-

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

RV730

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

RV730 XT (215-0719047)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

TeraScale

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

0.514 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

146 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.7

Shader Model

4.1

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