AMD Radeon RX 550 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti

VS

AMD Radeon RX 550

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 and 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3090 Ti 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 450W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 57% (1860MHz vs 1183MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1008GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

10240 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550

1.211 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti +3203%

40 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 550

1200

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti +1744%

22133

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 550

6

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti +1650%

105

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 550

12

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti +1291%

167

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 550

21

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti +900%

210

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX 550

7

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti +1728%

128

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX 550

14

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti +1335%

201

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX 550

20

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti +900%

200

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 550

84

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti +169%

226

Radeon RX 550

VS

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Jan 2022

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

1560 MHz

1183 MHz

Boost Clock

1860 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1313 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

1008GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

SM Count

84

512

Shading Units

10752

32

TMUs

336

16

ROPs

112

-

Tensor Cores

336

-

RT Cores

84

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

6 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

208.3 GPixel/s

37.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

625.0 GTexel/s

1211 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

40.00 TFLOPS

1211 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

40.00 TFLOPS

75.71 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

625.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

450W

250 W

Suggested PSU

850 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

GA102

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

GA102-350-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Ampere

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

Samsung

14 nm

Process Size

8 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

103 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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