AMD Radeon RX 550X 640SP vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

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AMD Radeon RX 550X 640SP NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550X 640SP and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 550X 640SP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (60W vs 170W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 66% (1777MHz vs 1071MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

2944 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550X 640SP

1.371 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 +829%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550X 640SP

VS

GeForce RTX 3060

Graphics Card

Apr 2018

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

1320 MHz

1071 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

28

10

Compute Units

-

640

Shading Units

3584

40

TMUs

112

16

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

112

-

RT Cores

28

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

17.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.30 GPixel/s

42.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

1371 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

1371 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

85.68 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Baffin

GPU Name

GA106

Baffin LE

GPU Variant

GA106-300-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

60W

TDP

170W

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

6.6

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