NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 vs AMD Radeon 550X

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

AMD Radeon 550X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 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 3060 8 GB GA104 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 46% (1777MHz vs 1218MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

3072 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon 550X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 195W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 +921%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X

1.247 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

VS

Radeon 550X

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Mar 2019

GeForce 30

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

1082 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

1218 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

112.0GB/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

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

113.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.49 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.98 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

1247 GFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1247 GFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

77.95 GFLOPS

Board Design

195W

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

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

1.2

8.6

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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