ATI Radeon HD 3850 AGP vs AMD Radeon 550

VS

ATI Radeon HD 3850 AGP

AMD Radeon 550

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3850 AGP and 2GB VRAM Radeon 550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 550 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1183MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (56.00GB/s vs 52.99GB/s)

192 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 3850 AGP

0.428 TFLOPS

Radeon 550 +182%

1.211 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3850 AGP

VS

Radeon 550

Graphics Card

Jan 2008

Release Date

Apr 2017

Radeon R600

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

AGP 8x

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1100 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1183 MHz

828 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

52.99GB/s

Bandwidth

56.00GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

8

-

320

Shading Units

512

16

TMUs

32

16

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

10.69 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.93 GPixel/s

10.69 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.86 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

1211 GFLOPS

427.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1211 GFLOPS

85.50 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.71 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

50W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

RV670

GPU Name

Lexa

RV670 PRO (215-0708003)

GPU Variant

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

TeraScale

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

55 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.666 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

192 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

4.1

Shader Model

6.7

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