AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

VS

AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 512SP and 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3090 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 350W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 58% (1695MHz vs 1071MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (936.2GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

9984 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550 512SP

1.097 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3090 +3143%

35.58 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550 512SP

VS

GeForce RTX 3090

Graphics Card

Oct 2017

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

1395 MHz

1071 MHz

Boost Clock

1695 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1219 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

936.2GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

SM Count

82

512

Shading Units

10496

32

TMUs

328

16

ROPs

112

-

Tensor Cores

328

-

RT Cores

82

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

6 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

189.8 GPixel/s

34.27 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

556.0 GTexel/s

1097 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

35.58 TFLOPS

1097 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

35.58 TFLOPS

68.54 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

556.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

350W

250 W

Suggested PSU

750 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 Processor

Baffin

GPU Name

GA102

Baffin LE

GPU Variant

GA102-300-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Ampere

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

Samsung

14 nm

Process Size

8 nm

3 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

628 mm²

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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