AMD Radeon 550X 640SP vs ATI Radeon HD 4730 OEM

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AMD Radeon 550X 640SP ATI Radeon HD 4730 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon 550X 640SP and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 4730 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 550X 640SP 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1071MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (48.00GB/s vs 25.34GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 110W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 550X 640SP +220%

1.371 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4730 OEM

0.428 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X 640SP

VS

Radeon HD 4730 OEM

Graphics Card

Apr 2018

Release Date

Dec 2008

Polaris

Generation

Radeon R700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1019 MHz

Base Clock

-

1071 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

396 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

48.00GB/s

Bandwidth

25.34GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

10

Compute Units

4

640

Shading Units

320

40

TMUs

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

17.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.70 GPixel/s

42.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.70 GTexel/s

1371 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1371 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

428.2 GFLOPS

85.68 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

85.63 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

RV670

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 4.0

Architecture

TeraScale

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

110W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

2.1

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

4.1

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