AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

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AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 512SP and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 195W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 's Advantages

Released 5 years late

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

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

3072 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550 512SP

1.097 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 +1061%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550 512SP

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GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

Graphics Card

Oct 2017

Release Date

Oct 2022

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1019 MHz

Base Clock

1320 MHz

1071 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

28

8

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

3584

32

TMUs

112

16

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

112

-

RT Cores

28

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

17.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

113.7 GPixel/s

34.27 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

1097 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

1097 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

68.54 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Baffin

GPU Name

GA104

Baffin LE

GPU Variant

GA104

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Ampere

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

Samsung

14 nm

Process Size

8 nm

3 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

195W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

6.4

Shader Model

6.7

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