AMD Radeon 550X 640SP vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

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AMD Radeon 550X 640SP NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon 550X 640SP and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 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 220W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 61% (1725MHz vs 1071MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 48.00GB/s)

5248 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 550X 640SP

1.371 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070 +1381%

20.31 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X 640SP

VS

GeForce RTX 3070

Graphics Card

Apr 2018

Release Date

Sep 2020

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1019 MHz

Base Clock

1500 MHz

1071 MHz

Boost Clock

1725 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

48.00GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

46

10

Compute Units

-

640

Shading Units

5888

40

TMUs

184

16

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

184

-

RT Cores

46

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

17.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

165.6 GPixel/s

42.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

317.4 GTexel/s

1371 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

20.31 TFLOPS

1371 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

20.31 TFLOPS

85.68 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

317.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

GA104

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

GA104-300-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Ampere

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

Samsung

14 nm

Process Size

8 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

220W

250 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

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

6.6

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