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

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 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 3060 GA104 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 11 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)

3072 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 +1061%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550 512SP

1.097 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

VS

Radeon RX 550 512SP

Graphics Card

Sep 2021

Release Date

Oct 2017

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

8

3584

Shading Units

512

112

TMUs

32

48

ROPs

16

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.14 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

34.27 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

1097 GFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1097 GFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

68.54 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

Baffin

GA104-150-A1

GPU Variant

Baffin LE

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 4.0

Samsung

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

8 nm

Process Size

14 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

3 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

170W

TDP

50W

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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