Radeon HD 5550 and Radeon HD 3870 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 5550 vs Radeon HD 3870
Radeon HD 5550
387
Radeon HD 3870
572
Radeon HD 5550
Radeon HD 3870
Architecture
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name
Redwood
RV670
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
February 2010
November 2007
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 6-pin
Core clock speed
550 MHz
777 MHz
Floating-point performance
352.0 gflops
497.3 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
627 million
666 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
320
320
Power consumption (TDP)
39 Watt
106 Watt
Texture fill rate
8.800
12.43
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR4
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
512 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
3200 MHz
2252 MHz
Memory bandwidth
51.2 GB/s
72.06 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
10.1 (10_1)
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
OpenGL
4.4
3.3
Shader Model
5.0
4.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A