NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti vs AMD Radeon RX 550X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti

AMD Radeon RX 550X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3090 Ti and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 550X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 57% (1860MHz vs 1183MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1008GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

10240 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 550X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 450W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti +3203%

40 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550X

1.211 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti

VS

Radeon RX 550X

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Dec 2018

GeForce 30

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1560 MHz

Base Clock

1100 MHz

1860 MHz

Boost Clock

1183 MHz

1313 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

1008GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

8

84

SM Count

-

10752

Shading Units

512

336

TMUs

32

112

ROPs

16

336

Tensor Cores

-

84

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

6 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

208.3 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.93 GPixel/s

625.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.86 GTexel/s

40.00 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

1211 GFLOPS

40.00 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1211 GFLOPS

625.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.71 GFLOPS

Board Design

450W

TDP

50W

850 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 16-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

Lexa

GA102-350-A1

GPU Variant

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 4.0

Samsung

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

8 nm

Process Size

14 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

628 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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