AMD Radeon 550X vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

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AMD Radeon 550X NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 550X and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 550X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 130W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 44% (1755MHz vs 1218MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 550X

1.247 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM +548%

8.087 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X

VS

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

Graphics Card

Mar 2019

Release Date

Jan 2022

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1082 MHz

Base Clock

1515 MHz

1218 MHz

Boost Clock

1755 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

18

8

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

2304

32

TMUs

72

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

72

-

RT Cores

18

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

19.49 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

56.16 GPixel/s

38.98 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

126.4 GTexel/s

1247 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

8.087 TFLOPS

1247 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.087 TFLOPS

77.95 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

126.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

GA106

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

GA106-150-KA-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Ampere

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

Samsung

14 nm

Process Size

8 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

12 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

130W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 8-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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