ATI Radeon HD 3550 vs AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM

VS

ATI Radeon HD 3550

AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3550 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8740 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 55W)

AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.00GB/s vs 6.336GB/s)

472 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 3550

0.048 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8740 OEM +1606%

0.819 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3550

VS

Radeon HD 8740 OEM

Graphics Card

Aug 2008

Release Date

Sep 2013

Radeon R600

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

396 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

6.336GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

2

Compute Units

8

-

40

Shading Units

512

4

TMUs

32

4

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.376 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.80 GPixel/s

2.376 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

25.60 GTexel/s

-

47.52 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

819.2 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

51.20 GFLOPS

Board Design

30W

TDP

55W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DisplayPort

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

RV620

GPU Name

Cape Verde

RV620 PRO (215-0670006)

GPU Variant

Cape Verde PRO

TeraScale

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.181 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

67 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

4.1

Shader Model

5.1

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