AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP vs ATI Radeon HD 3850 X2

VS

AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP

ATI Radeon HD 3850 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 512SP and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3850 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1071MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 52.99GB/s)

192 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 140W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550 512SP +156%

1.097 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3850 X2

0.428 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550 512SP

VS

Radeon HD 3850 X2

Graphics Card

Oct 2017

Release Date

Apr 2008

Polaris

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1019 MHz

Base Clock

-

1071 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

828 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

52.99GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

4

-

512

Shading Units

320

32

TMUs

16

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.70 GPixel/s

34.27 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.70 GTexel/s

1097 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1097 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

428.2 GFLOPS

68.54 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

85.63 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

140W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Baffin

GPU Name

RV670

Baffin LE

GPU Variant

RV670 PRO (215-0708003)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

TeraScale

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

55 nm

3 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

2.1

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.4

Shader Model

4.1

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