NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 550

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB AMD Radeon RX 550

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB and 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 50% (1777MHz vs 1183MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 550 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 130W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +651%

9.098 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550

1.211 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +420%

6254

Radeon RX 550

1202

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +233%

20

Radeon RX 550

6

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +250%

42

Radeon RX 550

12

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +290%

82

Radeon RX 550

21

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +314%

29

Radeon RX 550

7

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +364%

65

Radeon RX 550

14

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +310%

82

Radeon RX 550

20

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +35%

114

Radeon RX 550

84

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

VS

Radeon RX 550

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Apr 2017

GeForce 30

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1552 MHz

Base Clock

1100 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

1183 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

112.0GB/s

Render Config

20

SM Count

-

Compute Units

8

2560

Shading Units

512

80

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

80

Tensor Cores

-

20

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

56.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.93 GPixel/s

142.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.86 GTexel/s

9.098 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

1211 GFLOPS

9.098 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1211 GFLOPS

142.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.71 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

Lexa

GA106-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 4.0

Samsung

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

8 nm

Process Size

14 nm

12 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Board Design

130W

TDP

50W

300 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 8-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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