GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB vs Radeon RX 550X 640SP

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated309
Place by popularitynot in top-10025
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data37.01
Power efficiencyno data13.42
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameBaffinGA107
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date11 April 2018 (6 years ago)27 January 2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$199

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 cores6402048
Core clock speed1019 MHz1545 MHz
Boost clock speed1071 MHz1740 MHz
Number of transistors3,000 million8,700 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)60 Watt90 Watt
Texture fill rate42.84111.4
Floating-point processing power1.371 TFLOPS7.127 TFLOPS
ROPs1632
TMUs4064
Tensor Coresno data64
Ray Tracing Coresno data16

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 x8
Length145 mm242 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 6-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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount2 GB4 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1500 MHz1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth96 GB/s192.0 GB/s

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 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
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API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.46.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.03.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.3
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 11 April 2018 27 January 2022
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 14 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 60 Watt 90 Watt

RX 550X 640SP has 50% lower power consumption.

RTX 3050 4 GB, 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 RX 550X 640SP and GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon RX 550X 640SP
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