AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM vs ATI Radeon HD 4550

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM ATI Radeon HD 4550

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8990 OEM and 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 4550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1000MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 10.48GB/s)

1968 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 4550 's Advantages

Lower TDP (25W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8990 OEM +4166%

4.096 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4550

0.096 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8990 OEM

VS

Radeon HD 4550

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Sep 2008

Sea Islands

Generation

Radeon R700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

950 MHz

Base Clock

-

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

655 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

384bit

Memory Bus

64bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

10.48GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

1

2048

Shading Units

80

128

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.400 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.800 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

96.00 GFLOPS

1024 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Malta

GPU Name

RV710

Malta XT (215-0849026)

GPU Variant

RV710 (215-0725016)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.242 billion

365 mm²

Die Size

73 mm²

Board Design

375W

TDP

25W

750 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.0

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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