ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 vs AMD Radeon RX 550 640SP

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ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 AMD Radeon RX 550 640SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 X2 and 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 640SP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

160 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 550 640SP 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1071MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Lower TDP (60W vs 286W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 4870 X2

1.2 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550 640SP +14%

1.371 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870 X2

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Radeon RX 550 640SP

Graphics Card

Aug 2008

Release Date

Oct 2017

Radeon R700

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1019 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1071 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

10

Compute Units

10

800

Shading Units

640

40

TMUs

40

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

12.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.14 GPixel/s

30.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

42.84 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

1371 GFLOPS

1200 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1371 GFLOPS

240.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

85.68 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

R700

GPU Name

Baffin

R700 XT (215-0669045)

GPU Variant

Baffin LE

TeraScale

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

55 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.956 billion

Transistors

3 billion

256 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

286W

TDP

60W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

4.1

Shader Model

6.4

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