AMD Radeon 550X 640SP vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

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AMD Radeon 550X 640SP NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon 550X 640SP and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 550X 640SP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 70W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 37% (1470MHz vs 1071MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (168.0GB/s vs 48.00GB/s)

1664 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 550X 640SP

1.371 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB +394%

6.774 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X 640SP

VS

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

Graphics Card

Apr 2018

Release Date

Feb 2024

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1019 MHz

Base Clock

1042 MHz

1071 MHz

Boost Clock

1470 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

64bit

Memory Bus

96bit

48.00GB/s

Bandwidth

168.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

18

10

Compute Units

-

640

Shading Units

2304

40

TMUs

72

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

72

-

RT Cores

18

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

17.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

47.04 GPixel/s

42.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

105.8 GTexel/s

1371 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

6.774 TFLOPS

1371 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.774 TFLOPS

85.68 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

105.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

GA107

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

GA107-325-K2-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

70W

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

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

6.4

Shader Model

6.7

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