AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP vs ATI Radeon HD 3870 AGP

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AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP ATI Radeon HD 3870 AGP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 512SP and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3870 AGP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP 's Advantages

Boost Clock1071MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 72.06GB/s)

192 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 106W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550 512SP +120%

1.097 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3870 AGP

0.497 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550 512SP

VS

Radeon HD 3870 AGP

Graphics Card

Oct 2017

Release Date

Unknown

Polaris

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

AGP 8x

Clock Speeds

1019 MHz

Base Clock

-

1071 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1126 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR4

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

72.06GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

8

Compute Units

4

512

Shading Units

320

32

TMUs

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

17.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.43 GPixel/s

34.27 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.43 GTexel/s

1097 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1097 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

497.3 GFLOPS

68.54 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

99.46 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Baffin

GPU Name

RV670

Baffin LE

GPU Variant

RV670 XT (215-0708005)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

TeraScale

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

55 nm

3 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

106W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

2.1

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

4.1

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