Radeon 550X 640SP and GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB - video card comparison
Radeon 550X 640SP
GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB
Architecture
GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
Lexa
GA107
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2018
February 2024
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Boost clock speed
1071 MHz
1470 MHz
Core clock speed
1019 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
1,371 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
2,200 million
8,700 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
640
2304
Power consumption (TDP)
50 Watt
70 Watt
Texture fill rate
42.84
105.8
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
6 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
96 Bit
Memory clock speed
6000 MHz
14 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
48 GB/s
168.0 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
-
8.6
OpenCL
2.0
3.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.7
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.3