AMD Radeon 550X Mobile vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850 X2

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AMD Radeon 550X Mobile ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850 X2

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon 550X Mobile and 512MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 3850 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 550X Mobile 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1287MHz

320 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 70W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 550X Mobile +343%

1.647 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 3850 X2

0.371 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X Mobile

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Mobility Radeon HD 3850 X2

Graphics Card

Apr 2018

Release Date

Jun 2008

Mobility Radeon

Generation

M8x

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

-

1287 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

750 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

48.00GB/s

Bandwidth

48.00GB/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

20.59 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.280 GPixel/s

51.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

9.280 GTexel/s

1.647 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1.647 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

371.2 GFLOPS

103.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

74.24 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Polaris 23

GPU Name

M88

Polaris 23 MXT

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

70W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

4.1

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