NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 vs AMD Radeon 550

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

AMD Radeon 550

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 and 2GB VRAM Radeon 550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 5 months late

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

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 56.00GB/s)

3072 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon 550 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 +952%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon 550

1.211 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

VS

Radeon 550

Graphics Card

Sep 2021

Release Date

Apr 2017

GeForce 30

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

1100 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

1183 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

64bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

56.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

8

28

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

512

112

TMUs

32

64

ROPs

16

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

113.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.93 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.86 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

1211 GFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1211 GFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.71 GFLOPS

Board Design

170W

TDP

50W

450 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 12-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

Lexa

GA104-150-KC-A1

GPU Variant

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 4.0

Samsung

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

8 nm

Process Size

14 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

392 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

1.3

8.6

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.7

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