NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 550X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

AMD Radeon RX 550X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 550X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 24% (1470MHz vs 1183MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (168.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 550X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 70W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB +459%

6.774 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550X

1.211 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

VS

Radeon RX 550X

Graphics Card

Feb 2024

Release Date

Dec 2018

GeForce 30

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1042 MHz

Base Clock

1100 MHz

1470 MHz

Boost Clock

1183 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

96bit

Memory Bus

128bit

168.0GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

8

18

SM Count

-

2304

Shading Units

512

72

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

72

Tensor Cores

-

18

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

47.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.93 GPixel/s

105.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.86 GTexel/s

6.774 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

1211 GFLOPS

6.774 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1211 GFLOPS

105.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.71 GFLOPS

Board Design

70W

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

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

Lexa

GA107-325-K2-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

Related GPU Comparisons

1

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2

2

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB vs ATI Radeon HD 3570

3

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB vs ATI Radeon HD 5770 Mac Edition

4

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB vs AMD FirePro S9100

5

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB vs ATI All In Wonder HD 3650

6

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 645 OEM

7

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER

8

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 7950 Boost

9

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

10

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 590 GME

Related News

1

Intel Wildcat Lake Appears on Shipping List with FCBGA1516 Socket, Poised to Replace Alder Lake-N

2

The Commencement of ARM and Qualcomm Licensing Dispute Trial: Potential Major Impact on PC Market

3

NVIDIA Allegedly Equips RTX 5080 with 30Gbps Memory Speed, Other Models to Feature 28Gbps

4

Intel Reports High Return Rates for Devices Featuring Snapdragon X Series; Qualcomm Counters with 'Industry Standard' Claim

5

Intel Confirms Panther Lake Adopts 18A Process, ES0 Samples Already Sent to Customers

6

Complete Lineup of Core Ultra 200HX/H/U and Core 200H/U Revealed: 31 Models to Dazzle the Eyes

7

Amechi Unveils V1 Mini PC: Only 0.33L Volume with 150W Power Consumption

8

iPhone 17 Series Set for Major Design Overhaul: Camera Module Transformed into Sleek Strip

9

The Thinnest iPhone Ever! iPhone 17 Air Reportedly Enters Foxconn's NPI Stage

10

Apple Allegedly Cancels M4 Extreme, Originally Planned for Mac Pro with 64-Core CPU and 160-Core GPU