AMD Radeon RX 550X vs ATI Radeon HD 3470

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 550X and 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 3470 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 550X 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1183MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 15.20GB/s)

472 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 3470 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 50W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550X +1792%

1.211 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3470

0.064 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550X

VS

Radeon HD 3470

Graphics Card

Dec 2018

Release Date

Jan 2008

Polaris

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

-

1183 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

950 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

15.20GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

8

Compute Units

2

512

Shading Units

40

32

TMUs

4

16

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.200 GPixel/s

37.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.200 GTexel/s

1211 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1211 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

64.00 GFLOPS

75.71 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

RV620

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

RV620 PRO (215-0670006)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

TeraScale

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

0.181 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

30W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

4.1

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