AMD Radeon RX 550 vs ATI Radeon HD 4700

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 550 and ATI Radeon HD 4700 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon RX 550

ATI Radeon HD 4700

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 550

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 2 month(s) later
Around 83% higher core clock speed: 1100 MHz vs 600 MHz
Around 97% higher texture fill rate: 37.86 GTexel / s vs 19.2 GTexel / s
Around 60% higher pipelines: 512 vs 320
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 55 nm
8x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 512 MB
8.8x more memory clock speed: 7000 MHz vs 800 MHz

Launch date	18 April 2017 vs 11 February 2010
Core clock speed	1100 MHz vs 600 MHz
Texture fill rate	37.86 GTexel / s vs 19.2 GTexel / s
Pipelines	512 vs 320
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 55 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	7000 MHz vs 800 MHz

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 4700

320x better floating-point performance: 384.0 gflops vs 1.2 TFLOPs

Floating-point performance	384.0 gflops vs 1.2 TFLOPs

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 550
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 4700

Name	AMD Radeon RX 550	ATI Radeon HD 4700
PassMark - G3D Mark	2690
PassMark - G2D Mark	476
Geekbench - OpenCL	11610
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	33.507
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	1037.305
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	3.064
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	52.533
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	140.911
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	4485
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	940
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	2158
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	4485
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	940
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	2158
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	127

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX 550	ATI Radeon HD 4700
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 4.0	TeraScale
Code name	Lexa	RV730
Design	Radeon RX 500 Series
GCN generation	4th Gen
Launch date	18 April 2017	11 February 2010
Launch price (MSRP)	$79
Place in performance rating	876	not rated
Price now	$75
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	59.51
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1183 MHz
Core clock speed	1100 MHz	600 MHz
Floating-point performance	1.2 TFLOPs	384.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	512	320
Texture fill rate	37.86 GTexel / s	19.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	50 Watt
Transistor count	2,200 million	514 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	145 mm	193 mm
Recommended system power (PSU)	400 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12	10.1
OpenCL	2.0
OpenGL	4.5	3.3
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	112 GB/s	12.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	7000 MHz	800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR2
Technologies
4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Eyefinity
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
AppAcceleration
FreeSync
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support
LiquidVR
PowerTune
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)