Radeon HD 3550 and GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB - video card comparison

Radeon HD 3550

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

Architecture

TeraScale (2005−2013)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

RV620

GA106

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

August 2008

January 2022

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x8

Supplementary power connectors

None

1x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

1777 MHz

Core clock speed

594 MHz

Floating-point performance

47.52 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

55 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

181 million

12,000 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2560

Power consumption (TDP)

30 Watt

130 Watt

Texture fill rate

2.376

142.2

Memory type

DDR2

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

512 MB

8 GB

Memory bus width

64 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

792 MHz

14 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

6.336 GB/s

224.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

2x DisplayPort

1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

HDMI

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.6

OpenCL

N/A

3.0

OpenGL

3.3

4.6

Shader Model

4.1

6.6

Vulkan

N/A

1.3