ATI Radeon HD 3550 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

VS

ATI Radeon HD 3550

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3550 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 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 236W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 's Advantages

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (141.7GB/s vs 6.336GB/s)

200 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 3550

0.048 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280 +1195%

0.622 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3550

VS

GeForce GTX 280

Graphics Card

Aug 2008

Release Date

Jun 2008

Radeon R600

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

396 MHz

Memory Clock

1107 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

512bit

6.336GB/s

Bandwidth

141.7GB/s

Render Config

2

Compute Units

-

SM Count

30

40

Shading Units

240

4

TMUs

80

4

ROPs

32

-

64 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.376 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.26 GPixel/s

2.376 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

48.16 GTexel/s

-

47.52 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

622.1 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

77.76 GFLOPS

Board Design

30W

TDP

236W

200 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DisplayPort

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

RV620

GPU Name

GT200

RV620 PRO (215-0670006)

GPU Variant

G200-300-A2

TeraScale

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

65 nm

0.181 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

67 mm²

Die Size

576 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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