ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon HD 3550

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ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition ATI Radeon HD 3550

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.0GB/s vs 6.336GB/s)

1560 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 3550 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 228W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition +5566%

2.72 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3550

0.048 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

VS

Radeon HD 3550

Graphics Card

Jun 2010

Release Date

Aug 2008

Evergreen

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1195 MHz

Memory Clock

396 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

153.0GB/s

Bandwidth

6.336GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

2

1600

Shading Units

40

80

TMUs

4

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.376 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.376 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

47.52 GFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

RV620

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GPU Variant

RV620 PRO (215-0670006)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

0.181 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Board Design

228W

TDP

30W

550 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

2x DisplayPort

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

4.1

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