ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon HD 4550

VS

ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

ATI Radeon HD 4550

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition and 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 4550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition 's Advantages

More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.06GB/s vs 10.48GB/s)

240 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 4550 's Advantages

Lower TDP (25W vs 106W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition +417%

0.497 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4550

0.096 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

VS

Radeon HD 4550

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Sep 2008

Radeon R600

Generation

Radeon R700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1126 MHz

Memory Clock

655 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR4

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

72.06GB/s

Bandwidth

10.48GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

1

-

320

Shading Units

80

16

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.400 GPixel/s

12.43 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.800 GTexel/s

-

497.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

96.00 GFLOPS

99.46 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

106W

TDP

25W

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.0

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

RV670

GPU Name

RV710

RV670 XT (215-0708005)

GPU Variant

RV710 (215-0725016)

TeraScale

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.666 billion

Transistors

0.242 billion

192 mm²

Die Size

73 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

OpenGL

3.3

N/A

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

4.1

Shader Model

4.1

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