ATI Radeon HD 3550 vs AMD Radeon R5 230

VS

ATI Radeon HD 3550

AMD Radeon R5 230

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3550 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R5 230 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R5 230 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (10.67GB/s vs 6.336GB/s)

120 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (19W vs 30W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 3550

0.048 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 230 +316%

0.2 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3550

VS

Radeon R5 230

Graphics Card

Aug 2008

Release Date

Apr 2014

Radeon R600

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

396 MHz

Memory Clock

667 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR2

Memory Type

DDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

64bit

6.336GB/s

Bandwidth

10.67GB/s

Render Config

2

Compute Units

2

-

40

Shading Units

160

4

TMUs

8

4

ROPs

4

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.376 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.500 GPixel/s

2.376 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.000 GTexel/s

-

47.52 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

200.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

30W

TDP

19W

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DisplayPort

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

RV620

GPU Name

Caicos

RV620 PRO (215-0670006)

GPU Variant

Caicos PRO

TeraScale

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.181 billion

Transistors

0.37 billion

67 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.4

N/A

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

4.1

Shader Model

5.0

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