GeForce RTX 3060 and Radeon 550X 640SP - video card comparison
GeForce RTX 3060
Radeon 550X 640SP
Architecture
Ampere (2020−2022)
GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code name
Ampere GA106
Lexa
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
January 2021
April 2018
Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
1x 12-pin
None
Boost clock speed
1777 MHz
1071 MHz
Core clock speed
1320 MHz
1019 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
1,371 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
8 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
13,250 million
2,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
3584
640
Power consumption (TDP)
170 Watt
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
199.0
42.84
Memory type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
12 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
15000 MHz
6000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
360.0 GB/s
48 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (12_0)
CUDA
8.6
-
OpenCL
2.0
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.5
6.4
Vulkan
1.2
1.2.131