Radeon HD 3470 vs Radeon HD 5530

Radeon HD 3470
Memory: 256Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 23 Jan 2008
Radeon HD 3470
Radeon HD 5530
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 17 Mar 2011
Radeon HD 5530

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 3470

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5530

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 5530

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 5530

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 3470Radeon HD 5530
GPU NameRV620 (RV620 PRO)vsCedar (Cedar XTX)
Fab Process55 nmvs40 nm
Die Size67 mm²vs59 mm²
Transistors181 millionvs292 million
Shaders40vs80
Compute Units2vs2
Core clock800 MHzvs650 MHz
ROPs4vs4
TMUs4vs8

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 3470Radeon HD 5530
Memory TypeGDDR3vsGDDR3
Bus Width64 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed950 MHz
1900 MHz effective
vs600 MHz
1200 MHz effective
Memory Size256 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 3470Radeon HD 5530
TDP30 wattsvs19 watts
Release Date23 Jan 2008vs17 Mar 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 3470
    3.20 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 5530
    2.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 3470
    3.20 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 5530
    5.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 3470
    15.20 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 5530
    9.60 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 3470
    64.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 5530
    104.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better