AMD Radeon 550X vs ATI Radeon HD 3870

VS

AMD Radeon 550X

ATI Radeon HD 3870

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 550X and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3870 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 550X 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1218MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.0GB/s vs 72.06GB/s)

192 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 106W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 550X +150%

1.247 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3870

0.497 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X

VS

Radeon HD 3870

Graphics Card

Mar 2019

Release Date

Nov 2007

Polaris

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1082 MHz

Base Clock

-

1218 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1126 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR4

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

72.06GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

4

-

512

Shading Units

320

32

TMUs

16

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

19.49 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.43 GPixel/s

38.98 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.43 GTexel/s

1247 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1247 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

497.3 GFLOPS

77.95 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

99.46 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

106W

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

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

RV670

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

RV670 XT (215-0708005)

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

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

-

6.4

Shader Model

4.1

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