Radeon RX 550 and GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 - video card comparison
Radeon RX 550
GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104
Architecture
GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
Lexa
GA104
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2017
September 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
-
Floating-point performance
1,211 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
2,200 million
17,400 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
4 GB
12 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
7000 MHz
15 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
112.0 GB/s
360.0 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
6.6
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.3