AMD Radeon RX 550 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

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AMD Radeon RX 550 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 and 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3090 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 550 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 350W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 43% (1695MHz vs 1183MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (936.2GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

9984 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550

1.211 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3090 +2838%

35.58 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 550

1200

GeForce RTX 3090 +1557%

19888

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 550

6

GeForce RTX 3090 +1450%

93

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 550

12

GeForce RTX 3090 +1183%

154

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 550

21

GeForce RTX 3090 +852%

200

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX 550

7

GeForce RTX 3090 +1557%

116

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX 550

14

GeForce RTX 3090 +1250%

189

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX 550

20

GeForce RTX 3090 +895%

199

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 550

84

GeForce RTX 3090 +148%

209

Radeon RX 550

VS

GeForce RTX 3090

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Sep 2020

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

1395 MHz

1183 MHz

Boost Clock

1695 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1219 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

936.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

82

8

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

10496

32

TMUs

328

16

ROPs

112

-

Tensor Cores

328

-

RT Cores

82

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

6 MB

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

189.8 GPixel/s

37.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

556.0 GTexel/s

1211 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

35.58 TFLOPS

1211 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

35.58 TFLOPS

75.71 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

556.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

GA102

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

GA102-300-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Ampere

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

Samsung

14 nm

Process Size

8 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

628 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

350W

250 W

Suggested PSU

750 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

6.6

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