NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti vs AMD Radeon 550X

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti AMD Radeon 550X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti and 2GB VRAM Radeon 550X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 37% (1665MHz vs 1218MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

4352 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon 550X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +1199%

16.2 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X

1.247 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

VS

Radeon 550X

Graphics Card

Dec 2020

Release Date

Mar 2019

GeForce 30

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1410 MHz

Base Clock

1082 MHz

1665 MHz

Boost Clock

1218 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

112.0GB/s

Render Config

38

SM Count

-

Compute Units

8

4864

Shading Units

512

152

TMUs

32

80

ROPs

16

152

Tensor Cores

-

38

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

133.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.49 GPixel/s

253.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.98 GTexel/s

16.20 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

1247 GFLOPS

16.20 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1247 GFLOPS

253.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

77.95 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

Lexa

GA104-200-A1

GPU Variant

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 4.0

Samsung

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

8 nm

Process Size

14 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

50W

550 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 12-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

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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