Radeon RX 550 640SP vs Radeon HD 4700
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 640SP and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4700 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon RX 550 640SP Advantages
Released 7 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock1071MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
320 additional rendering cores
Radeon HD 4700 Advantages
Lower TDP (50W vs 60W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 550 640SP
+257%
1371
Radeon HD 4700
384
Graphics Card
Oct 2017
Release Date
Feb 2010
Polaris
Generation
Radeon R700
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1019 MHz
Base Clock
-
1071 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
400 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR2
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
96.00GB/s
Bandwidth
12.80GB/s
Render Config
10
Compute Units
4
640
Shading Units
320
40
TMUs
32
16
ROPs
8
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
128 KB
Theoretical Performance
17.14 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.800 GPixel/s
42.84 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
19.20 GTexel/s
1371 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
1371 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
384.0 GFLOPS
85.68 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
60W
TDP
50W
250 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0b
1x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x HDMI 2.0b
1x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
Baffin
GPU Name
RV730
Baffin LE
GPU Variant
RV730 CE
GCN 4.0
Architecture
TeraScale
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
55 nm
3 billion
Transistors
0.514 billion
123 mm²
Die Size
146 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
2.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
6.4
Shader Model
4.1
