NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB vs ATI Radeon HD 3550

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

ATI Radeon HD 3550

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 12 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 3080 12 GB 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1710MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (912.4GB/s vs 6.336GB/s)

8920 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 3550 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 350W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +63733%

30.64 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3550

0.048 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

VS

Radeon HD 3550

Graphics Card

Jan 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

1260 MHz

Base Clock

-

1710 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

396 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

DDR2

384bit

Memory Bus

64bit

912.4GB/s

Bandwidth

6.336GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

2

70

SM Count

-

8960

Shading Units

40

280

TMUs

4

96

ROPs

4

280

Tensor Cores

-

70

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

5 MB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

164.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.376 GPixel/s

478.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.376 GTexel/s

30.64 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

30.64 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

47.52 GFLOPS

478.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

350W

TDP

30W

750 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DisplayPort

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

RV620

GA102-220-A1

GPU Variant

RV620 PRO (215-0670006)

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

55 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

0.181 billion

628 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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