Radeon 550 and GeForce RTX 3060 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon 550 vs GeForce RTX 3060
Radeon 550
2018
GeForce RTX 3060
17598
Radeon 550
GeForce RTX 3060
Architecture
GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
Lexa
Ampere GA106
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2017
January 2021
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 12-pin
Boost clock speed
1183 MHz
1777 MHz
Core clock speed
1100 MHz
1320 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
2,200 million
13,250 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
512
3584
Power consumption (TDP)
50 Watt
170 Watt
Texture fill rate
37.86
199.0
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
12 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
7 GB/s
15000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
56 GB/s
360.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI 2.0b, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
-
8.6
OpenCL
2.1
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.7
6.5
Vulkan
1.3
1.2