NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 vs AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8550 OEM 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 9 years late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

3104 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (60W vs 195W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 +1941%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8550 OEM

0.624 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

VS

Radeon HD 8550 OEM

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Oct 2013

GeForce 30

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

-

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

6

28

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

480

112

TMUs

24

64

ROPs

8

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

113.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.200 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.60 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

624.0 GFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

195W

TDP

60W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

Turks

GA104

GPU Variant

Turks PRO (215-0803002)

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale 2

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

0.716 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

118 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.0

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