Radeon HD 8550M and GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB - video card comparison

Radeon HD 8550M

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

Architecture

GCN (2011−2017)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Sun

GA106

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

November 2012

January 2022

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

PCIe 4.0 x8

Supplementary power connectors

1x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

850 MHz

1777 MHz

Core clock speed

700 MHz

Floating-point performance

544.0 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

690 million

12,000 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

384

2560

Power consumption (TDP)

130 Watt

Texture fill rate

17.00

142.2

Memory type

DDR3

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

8 GB

Memory bus width

64 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

1800 MHz

14 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

14.4 GB/s

224.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

No outputs

1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

HDMI

DirectX

12 (11_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.6

OpenCL

1.2

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

6.6

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.3