Radeon 550X vs GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 550X and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon 550X Advantages
Lower TDP (50W vs 225W)
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X Advantages
Released 3 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 37% (1665MHz vs 1218MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (608.3GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)
4352 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon 550X
1247
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+1199%
16200
Graphics Card
Mar 2019
Release Date
Oct 2022
Polaris
Generation
GeForce 30
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1082 MHz
Base Clock
1410 MHz
1218 MHz
Boost Clock
1665 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
1188 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6X
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
112.0GB/s
Bandwidth
608.3GB/s
Render Config
8
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
38
512
Shading Units
4864
32
TMUs
152
16
ROPs
80
-
Tensor Cores
152
-
RT Cores
38
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
4 MB
Theoretical Performance
19.49 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
133.2 GPixel/s
38.98 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
253.1 GTexel/s
1247 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
16.20 TFLOPS
1247 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
16.20 TFLOPS
77.95 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
253.1 GFLOPS
Board Design
50W
TDP
225W
250 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0b
1x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x HDMI 2.0b
1x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
None
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
Graphics Processor
Lexa
GPU Name
GA104
Lexa PRO
(215-0904018)
(215-0904018)
GPU Variant
GA104-202-A1
GCN 4.0
Architecture
Ampere
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
Samsung
14 nm
Process Size
8 nm
2.2 billion
Transistors
17.4 billion
103 mm²
Die Size
392 mm²
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