GRID A100B vs ATI Radeon HD 3550

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameRV620GA100
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date4 August 2008 (16 years ago)14 May 2020 (4 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores406912
Core clock speed594 MHz900 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1005 MHz
Number of transistors181 million54,200 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)30 Watt400 Watt
Texture fill rate2.376434.2
Floating-point processing power0.04752 TFLOPS13.89 TFLOPS
ROPs4192
TMUs4432
Tensor Coresno data432

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Width1-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeDDR2HBM2e
Maximum RAM amount512 MB48 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit6144 Bit
Memory clock speed396 MHz1215 MHz
Memory bandwidth6.336 GB/s1,866 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors2x DisplayPortNo outputs

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX10.1 (10_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model4.16.5
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCLN/A2.0
VulkanN/A1.2
CUDA-8.0

Pros & cons summary


Recency 4 August 2008 14 May 2020
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 48 GB
Chip lithography 55 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 30 Watt 400 Watt

ATI HD 3550 has 1233.3% lower power consumption.

GRID A100B, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 11 years, a 9500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 685.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 3550 and GRID A100B. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 3550 is a desktop card while GRID A100B is a workstation one.


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