AMD Radeon RX 550X vs ATI Radeon HD 3730

VS

AMD Radeon RX 550X

ATI Radeon HD 3730

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 550X and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3730 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 2 months late

Boost Clock1183MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 12.67GB/s)

392 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 65W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550X +600%

1.211 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3730

0.173 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550X

VS

Radeon HD 3730

Graphics Card

Dec 2018

Release Date

Oct 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

396 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

12.67GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

3

-

512

Shading Units

120

32

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.888 GPixel/s

37.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.776 GTexel/s

1211 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1211 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

173.3 GFLOPS

75.71 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

50W

TDP

65W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

RV635

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

RV635 PRO (215-0682008)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

TeraScale

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

0.378 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

135 mm²

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

-

6.4

Shader Model

4.1

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