ATI Radeon HD 3550 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3550 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 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 148W)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 1 months late
Boost Clock1178MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 6.336GB/s)
1624 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 3550
0.048 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 970
+8066%
3.92 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Aug 2008
Release Date
Sep 2014
Radeon R600
Generation
GeForce 900
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1050 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1178 MHz
396 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
4GB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
256bit
6.336GB/s
Bandwidth
224.4GB/s
Render Config
2
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
40
Shading Units
1664
4
TMUs
104
4
ROPs
56
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
64 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
2.376 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
65.97 GPixel/s
2.376 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
122.5 GTexel/s
-
-
-
47.52 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.920 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
122.5 GFLOPS
Board Design
30W
TDP
148W
200 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
2x DisplayPort
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
None
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
RV620
GPU Name
GM204
RV620 PRO
(215-0670006)
GPU Variant
GM204-200-A1
TeraScale
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.181 billion
Transistors
5.2 billion
67 mm²
Die Size
398 mm²
Graphics Features
10.1 (10_1)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
N/A
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
5.2
4.1
Shader Model
6.4
