ATI Radeon HD 3850 X3 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti

VS

ATI Radeon HD 3850 X3

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3850 X3 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 550 Ti to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 3850 X3 's Advantages

128 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti 's Advantages

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (98.50GB/s vs 54.40GB/s)

Lower TDP (116W vs 145W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 3850 X3

0.428 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 550 Ti +61%

0.691 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3850 X3

VS

GeForce GTX 550 Ti

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Mar 2011

Radeon R600

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

850 MHz

Memory Clock

1026 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

54.40GB/s

Bandwidth

98.50GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

320

Shading Units

192

16

TMUs

32

16

ROPs

24

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

10.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.200 GPixel/s

10.70 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

28.80 GTexel/s

-

428.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

691.2 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

57.60 GFLOPS

Board Design

145W

TDP

116W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

4x DVI

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

RV670

GPU Name

GF116

RV670 PRO (215-0708003)

GPU Variant

GF116-400-A1

TeraScale

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.666 billion

Transistors

1.17 billion

192 mm²

Die Size

238 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

4.1

Shader Model

5.1

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