ATI Radeon X1950 GT vs ATI Radeon HD 3550

VS

ATI Radeon X1950 GT

ATI Radeon HD 3550

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM Radeon X1950 GT and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon X1950 GT 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (38.40GB/s vs 6.336GB/s)

ATI Radeon HD 3550 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)

40 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (30W vs 57W)

Score

Radeon X1950 GT

VS

Radeon HD 3550

Graphics Card

Jan 2007

Release Date

Aug 2008

Radeon R500 PCIe

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

600 MHz

Memory Clock

396 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

38.40GB/s

Bandwidth

6.336GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

2

-

Shading Units

40

12

TMUs

4

12

ROPs

4

-

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

6.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.376 GPixel/s

6.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.376 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

47.52 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

57W

TDP

30W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DisplayPort

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

RV570

GPU Name

RV620

RV570 XL

GPU Variant

RV620 PRO (215-0670006)

R500

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.33 billion

Transistors

0.181 billion

230 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Graphics Features

9.0c (9_3)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

2.1 (full) 3.0 (partial)

OpenGL

3.3

N/A

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

3.0

Shader Model

4.1

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