GeForce RTX 3070 Ti vs Radeon 550X 640SP

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated32
Place by popularitynot in top-10091
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data52.66
Power efficiencyno data14.45
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameLexaGA104
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date11 April 2018 (6 years ago)31 May 2021 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$599

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores6406144
Core clock speed1019 MHz1575 MHz
Boost clock speed1071 MHz1770 MHz
Number of transistors2,200 million17,400 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt290 Watt
Texture fill rate42.84339.8
Floating-point processing power1.371 TFLOPS21.75 TFLOPS
ROPs1696
TMUs40192
Tensor Coresno data192
Ray Tracing Coresno data48

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x8PCIe 4.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
WidthIGP2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 12-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR6X
Maximum RAM amount4 GB8 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1500 MHz1188 MHz
Memory bandwidth48 GB/s608.3 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI++

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (12_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.46.6
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.03.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.2
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 11 April 2018 31 May 2021
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 8 GB
Chip lithography 14 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 290 Watt

550X 640SP has 480% lower power consumption.

RTX 3070 Ti, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 3 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 75% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon 550X 640SP and GeForce RTX 3070 Ti. We've got no test results to judge.


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