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

VS

AMD Radeon RX 550X 640SP

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550X 640SP and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 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 200W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 55% (1665MHz vs 1071MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

4224 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550X 640SP

1.371 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +1081%

16.2 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550X 640SP

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

Graphics Card

Apr 2018

Release Date

Dec 2020

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1019 MHz

Base Clock

1410 MHz

1071 MHz

Boost Clock

1665 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

-

SM Count

38

640

Shading Units

4864

40

TMUs

152

16

ROPs

80

-

Tensor Cores

152

-

RT Cores

38

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

133.2 GPixel/s

42.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

253.1 GTexel/s

1371 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

16.20 TFLOPS

1371 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

16.20 TFLOPS

85.68 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

253.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

60W

TDP

200W

250 W

Suggested PSU

550 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

GA104

Baffin LE

GPU Variant

GA104-200-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Ampere

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

Samsung

14 nm

Process Size

8 nm

3 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

392 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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