Radeon RX 550 and GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q - video card comparison
Radeon RX 550
GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q
Architecture
GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
Lexa
GN20-E3 GA106
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
April 2017
January 2021
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Boost clock speed
1183 MHz
1283 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
13,250 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
512
3840
Power consumption (TDP)
50 Watt
60 Watt
Texture fill rate
37.86
153.8
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
6 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
7000 MHz
12 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
112.0 GB/s
264.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
No outputs
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
-
8.6
OpenCL
2.0
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.5
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.2