ATI Radeon HD 3850 AGP vs AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP

VS

ATI Radeon HD 3850 AGP

AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP

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

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1071MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/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 RX 550 512SP +156%

1.097 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3850 AGP

VS

Radeon RX 550 512SP

Graphics Card

Jan 2008

Release Date

Oct 2017

Radeon R600

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

AGP 8x

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1019 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1071 MHz

828 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

52.99GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/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

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

10.69 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.14 GPixel/s

10.69 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

34.27 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

1097 GFLOPS

427.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1097 GFLOPS

85.50 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

68.54 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

Baffin

RV670 PRO (215-0708003)

GPU Variant

Baffin LE

TeraScale

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

55 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.666 billion

Transistors

3 billion

192 mm²

Die Size

123 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

1.2

-

4.1

Shader Model

6.4

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