GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB vs Radeon 550X
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB and 2GB VRAM Radeon 550X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 43% (1740MHz vs 1218MHz)
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)
1536 additional rendering cores
Radeon 550X 's Advantages
Lower TDP (50W vs 90W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB
+471%
7127
Radeon 550X
1247
Graphics Card
Jan 2022
Release Date
Mar 2019
GeForce 30
Generation
Polaris
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
Clock Speeds
1545 MHz
Base Clock
1082 MHz
1740 MHz
Boost Clock
1218 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
192.0GB/s
Bandwidth
112.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
8
16
SM Count
-
2048
Shading Units
512
64
TMUs
32
32
ROPs
16
64
Tensor Cores
-
16
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
55.68 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
19.49 GPixel/s
111.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
38.98 GTexel/s
7.127 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
1247 GFLOPS
7.127 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1247 GFLOPS
111.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
77.95 GFLOPS
Board Design
90W
TDP
50W
250 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 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GA107
GPU Name
Lexa
GA107-140-A1
GPU Variant
Lexa PRO
(215-0904018)
Ampere
Architecture
GCN 4.0
Samsung
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
8 nm
Process Size
14 nm
8.7 billion
Transistors
2.2 billion
200 mm²
Die Size
103 mm²
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
-
6.7
Shader Model
6.4
