NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB vs ATI Radeon HD 3550

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

ATI Radeon HD 3550

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB 's Advantages

Released 14 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 6.336GB/s)

3544 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 3550 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +26441%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3550

0.048 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

VS

Radeon HD 3550

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Aug 2008

GeForce 30

Generation

Radeon R600

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

396 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

6.336GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

2

28

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

40

112

TMUs

4

48

ROPs

4

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

3 MB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.376 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.376 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

47.52 GFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

170W

TDP

30W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DisplayPort

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

RV620

GA106-302-A1

GPU Variant

RV620 PRO (215-0670006)

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

55 nm

12 billion

Transistors

0.181 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

4.1

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