ATI Radeon HD 5870 vs ATI Radeon HD 4550

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5870

ATI Radeon HD 4550

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 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 5870 's Advantages

Released 1 years late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 10.48GB/s)

1520 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 4550 's Advantages

Lower TDP (25W vs 188W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 5870 +2733%

2.72 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4550

0.096 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870

VS

Radeon HD 4550

Graphics Card

Sep 2009

Release Date

Sep 2008

Evergreen

Generation

Radeon R700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

655 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

10.48GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

1

-

1600

Shading Units

80

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.400 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.800 GTexel/s

-

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

96.00 GFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

188W

TDP

25W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

RV710

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GPU Variant

RV710 (215-0725016)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

0.242 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

73 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.0

Shader Model

4.1

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