AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

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AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 512SP and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 185W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 73% (1852MHz vs 1071MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

3328 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550 512SP

1.097 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP +1196%

14.22 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550 512SP

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GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

Graphics Card

Oct 2017

Release Date

Jan 2021

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1019 MHz

Base Clock

1627 MHz

1071 MHz

Boost Clock

1852 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

30

8

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

3840

32

TMUs

120

16

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

120

-

RT Cores

30

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

17.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

88.90 GPixel/s

34.27 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

222.2 GTexel/s

1097 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

14.22 TFLOPS

1097 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

14.22 TFLOPS

68.54 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

222.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Baffin

GPU Name

GA106

Baffin LE

GPU Variant

GA106-400-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Ampere

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

Samsung

14 nm

Process Size

8 nm

3 billion

Transistors

12 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

185W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 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

6.7

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