ATI Radeon HD 3550 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 OEM

VS

ATI Radeon HD 3550

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3550 and 1792MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 3550 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 182W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 OEM 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (1792GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.9GB/s vs 6.336GB/s)

152 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 3550

0.048 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 OEM +764%

0.415 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3550

VS

GeForce GTX 260 OEM

Graphics Card

Aug 2008

Release Date

Dec 2009

Radeon R600

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

396 MHz

Memory Clock

1008 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1792MB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

448bit

6.336GB/s

Bandwidth

112.9GB/s

Render Config

2

Compute Units

-

SM Count

24

40

Shading Units

192

4

TMUs

64

4

ROPs

28

-

64 KB

L2 Cache

224 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.376 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.50 GPixel/s

2.376 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.15 GTexel/s

-

47.52 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

414.7 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

51.84 GFLOPS

Board Design

30W

TDP

182W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DisplayPort

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

RV620

GPU Name

GT200B

RV620 PRO (215-0670006)

GPU Variant

G200-103-B2

TeraScale

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.181 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

67 mm²

Die Size

470 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

N/A

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.3

4.1

Shader Model

4.0

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