AMD Radeon R9 290 vs ATI Radeon HD 3550

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290

ATI Radeon HD 3550

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 6.336GB/s)

2520 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 3550 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290 +10002%

4.849 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3550

0.048 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290

VS

Radeon HD 3550

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Aug 2008

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

396 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

512bit

Memory Bus

64bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

6.336GB/s

Render Config

40

Compute Units

2

-

2560

Shading Units

40

160

TMUs

4

64

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

60.61 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.376 GPixel/s

151.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.376 GTexel/s

-

4.849 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

47.52 GFLOPS

606.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

275W

TDP

30W

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DisplayPort

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

RV620

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

GPU Variant

RV620 PRO (215-0670006)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.181 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.3

Shader Model

4.1

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