ATI Radeon HD 5550 vs ATI Radeon HD 3730

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5550

ATI Radeon HD 3730

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 5550 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3730 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 5550 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 4 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.20GB/s vs 12.67GB/s)

200 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (39W vs 65W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 5550 +103%

0.352 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3730

0.173 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5550

VS

Radeon HD 3730

Graphics Card

Feb 2010

Release Date

Oct 2008

Evergreen

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

396 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

51.20GB/s

Bandwidth

12.67GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

3

-

320

Shading Units

120

16

TMUs

8

ROPs

4

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.888 GPixel/s

8.800 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.776 GTexel/s

-

352.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

173.3 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

39W

TDP

65W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Redwood

GPU Name

RV635

Redwood PRO2

GPU Variant

RV635 PRO (215-0682008)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.627 billion

Transistors

0.378 billion

104 mm²

Die Size

135 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.0

Shader Model

4.1

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