NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM vs AMD Radeon 550X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

AMD Radeon 550X

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

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 44% (1755MHz vs 1218MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

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

1792 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon 550X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 130W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM +548%

8.087 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X

1.247 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

VS

Radeon 550X

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

1515 MHz

Base Clock

1082 MHz

1755 MHz

Boost Clock

1218 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

-

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

56.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.49 GPixel/s

126.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.98 GTexel/s

8.087 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

1247 GFLOPS

8.087 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1247 GFLOPS

126.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

77.95 GFLOPS

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 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

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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