AMD Radeon RX 550 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107

VS

AMD Radeon RX 550

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107 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 115W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 50% (1777MHz vs 1183MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

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

2048 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550

1.211 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107 +651%

9.098 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550

VS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Jan 2022

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

1552 MHz

1183 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 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

8

Compute Units

-

SM Count

20

512

Shading Units

2560

32

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

80

-

RT Cores

20

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

56.86 GPixel/s

37.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

142.2 GTexel/s

1211 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

9.098 TFLOPS

1211 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.098 TFLOPS

75.71 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

142.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

115W

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 Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

GA107

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

GA107-150-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Ampere

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

Samsung

14 nm

Process Size

8 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

Unknown

103 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

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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