AMD Radeon RX 550X vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti GA102

VS

AMD Radeon RX 550X

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti GA102

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 550X and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 Ti GA102 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 550X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 290W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti GA102 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 50% (1770MHz vs 1183MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (608.3GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

5632 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550X

1.211 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti GA102 +1696%

21.75 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550X

VS

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti GA102

Graphics Card

Dec 2018

Release Date

Oct 2022

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

1575 MHz

1183 MHz

Boost Clock

1770 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

608.3GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

SM Count

48

512

Shading Units

6144

32

TMUs

192

16

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

192

-

RT Cores

48

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

169.9 GPixel/s

37.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

339.8 GTexel/s

1211 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

21.75 TFLOPS

1211 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

21.75 TFLOPS

75.71 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

339.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

290W

250 W

Suggested PSU

600 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

Lexa

GPU Name

GA102

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

GA102-150-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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