AMD Radeon RX 550 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

VS

AMD Radeon RX 550

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 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 RX 550 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 70W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 24% (1470MHz vs 1183MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (168.0GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550

1.211 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB +459%

6.774 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 550

1200

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB +303%

4838

Radeon RX 550

VS

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Feb 2024

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

1042 MHz

1183 MHz

Boost Clock

1470 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

96bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

168.0GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

SM Count

18

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

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

47.04 GPixel/s

37.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

105.8 GTexel/s

1211 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

6.774 TFLOPS

1211 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.774 TFLOPS

75.71 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

105.8 GFLOPS

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 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

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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