AMD Radeon 550 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

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AMD Radeon 550 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 550 and 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 550 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 90W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 47% (1740MHz vs 1183MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 56.00GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 550

1.211 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +488%

7.127 TFLOPS

Radeon 550

VS

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Jan 2022

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

1545 MHz

1183 MHz

Boost Clock

1740 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

56.00GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

16

8

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

2048

32

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

64

-

RT Cores

16

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

55.68 GPixel/s

37.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

111.4 GTexel/s

1211 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

7.127 TFLOPS

1211 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.127 TFLOPS

75.71 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

111.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

GA107

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

GA107-140-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Ampere

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

Samsung

14 nm

Process Size

8 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

8.7 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

90W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

6.7

Shader Model

6.7

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