NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB and 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 512SP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 62% (1740MHz vs 1071MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 90W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +549%

7.127 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550 512SP

1.097 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

VS

Radeon RX 550 512SP

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Oct 2017

GeForce 30

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1545 MHz

Base Clock

1019 MHz

1740 MHz

Boost Clock

1071 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

-

Compute Units

8

2048

Shading Units

512

64

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

64

Tensor Cores

-

16

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

55.68 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.14 GPixel/s

111.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

34.27 GTexel/s

7.127 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

1097 GFLOPS

7.127 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1097 GFLOPS

111.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

68.54 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

Baffin

GA107-140-A1

GPU Variant

Baffin LE

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 4.0

Samsung

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

8 nm

Process Size

14 nm

8.7 billion

Transistors

3 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

90W

TDP

50W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.6

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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