NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP vs AMD Radeon 550

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP AMD Radeon 550

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP 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 3840SP 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 57% (1852MHz vs 1183MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 56.00GB/s)

3328 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon 550 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 185W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP +1074%

14.22 TFLOPS

Radeon 550

1.211 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

VS

Radeon 550

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Apr 2017

GeForce 30

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1627 MHz

Base Clock

1100 MHz

1852 MHz

Boost Clock

1183 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

64bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

56.00GB/s

Render Config

30

SM Count

-

Compute Units

8

3840

Shading Units

512

120

TMUs

32

48

ROPs

16

120

Tensor Cores

-

30

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

88.90 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.93 GPixel/s

222.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.86 GTexel/s

14.22 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

1211 GFLOPS

14.22 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1211 GFLOPS

222.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.71 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

Lexa

GA106-400-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

185W

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 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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