NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs AMD Radeon RX 550X 640SP

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 AMD Radeon RX 550X 640SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 and 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550X 640SP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 66% (1777MHz vs 1071MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

2944 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 550X 640SP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (60W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 +829%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550X 640SP

1.371 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060

VS

Radeon RX 550X 640SP

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Apr 2018

GeForce 30

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

1019 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

1071 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

-

Compute Units

10

3584

Shading Units

640

112

TMUs

40

48

ROPs

16

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.14 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

42.84 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

1371 GFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1371 GFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

85.68 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

Baffin

GA106-300-A1

GPU Variant

Baffin LE

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 4.0

Samsung

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

8 nm

Process Size

14 nm

12 billion

Transistors

3 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

170W

TDP

60W

450 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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