NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs AMD Radeon 550X 640SP

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 AMD Radeon 550X 640SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 and 4GB VRAM Radeon 550X 640SP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 61% (1725MHz vs 1071MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 48.00GB/s)

5248 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon 550X 640SP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 220W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3070 +1381%

20.31 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X 640SP

1.371 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070

VS

Radeon 550X 640SP

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

Apr 2018

GeForce 30

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1500 MHz

Base Clock

1019 MHz

1725 MHz

Boost Clock

1071 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

48.00GB/s

Render Config

46

SM Count

-

Compute Units

10

5888

Shading Units

640

184

TMUs

40

96

ROPs

16

184

Tensor Cores

-

46

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

165.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.14 GPixel/s

317.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

42.84 GTexel/s

20.31 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

1371 GFLOPS

20.31 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1371 GFLOPS

317.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

85.68 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

Lexa

GA104-300-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

220W

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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