GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB vs Radeon RX 550X 640SP

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated105
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data16.24
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameBaffinGA106
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date11 April 2018 (6 years ago)12 October 2022 (2 years ago)

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 cores6403584
Core clock speed1019 MHz1320 MHz
Boost clock speed1071 MHz1777 MHz
Number of transistors3,000 million12,000 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)60 Watt170 Watt
Texture fill rate42.84199.0
Floating-point processing power1.371 TFLOPS12.74 TFLOPS
ROPs1648
TMUs40112
Tensor Coresno data112
Ray Tracing Coresno data28

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
Length145 mm242 mm
Width2-slot2-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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount2 GB8 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1500 MHz1875 MHz
Memory bandwidth96 GB/s240.0 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
HDMI++

API compatibility

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

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

Pros & cons summary


Recency 11 April 2018 12 October 2022
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 8 GB
Chip lithography 14 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 60 Watt 170 Watt

RX 550X 640SP has 183.3% lower power consumption.

RTX 3060 8 GB, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 4 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 75% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 550X 640SP and GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon RX 550X 640SP
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