NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs AMD Radeon RX 550

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

AMD Radeon RX 550

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

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 9 months late

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

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

3072 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 550 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 +952%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550

1.211 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3060 +631%

8780

Radeon RX 550

1200

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060 +633%

44

Radeon RX 550

6

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060 +566%

80

Radeon RX 550

12

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060 +452%

116

Radeon RX 550

21

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060 +685%

55

Radeon RX 550

7

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060 +621%

101

Radeon RX 550

14

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060 +610%

142

Radeon RX 550

20

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060 +58%

133

Radeon RX 550

84

GeForce RTX 3060

VS

Radeon RX 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

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

128bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

112.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

8

28

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

512

112

TMUs

32

48

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

85.30 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

GA106

GPU Name

Lexa

GA106-300-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

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

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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