AMD Radeon 550 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon 550 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon 550

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon 550

Around 50% higher core clock speed: 1100 MHz vs 735 MHz
Around 14% higher boost clock speed: 1183 MHz vs 1035 MHz
Around 50% lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 75 Watt
Around 17% higher memory clock speed: 1750 MHz, 7 Gbps effective vs 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective

Core clock speed	1100 MHz vs 735 MHz
Boost clock speed	1183 MHz vs 1035 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt vs 75 Watt
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz, 7 Gbps effective vs 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 0 month(s) later
2.2x more texture fill rate: 82.80 GTexel/s vs 37.86 GTexel/s
5x more pipelines: 2560 vs 512
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 8 nm vs 14 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2 GB
Around 6% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 497 vs 471
4.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 10129 vs 2104

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	11 May 2021 vs 20 Apr 2017
Texture fill rate	82.80 GTexel/s vs 37.86 GTexel/s
Pipelines	2560 vs 512
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm vs 14 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 2 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	497 vs 471
PassMark - G3D Mark	10129 vs 2104

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon 550
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

471

497

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

2104

10129

Name	AMD Radeon 550	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti
PassMark - G2D Mark	471	497
PassMark - G3D Mark	2104	10129
Geekbench - OpenCL		57847
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		229.393
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		2082.931
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		16.561
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		134.68
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		599.217
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		16098
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3358
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		16098
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3358
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		452

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon 550	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 4.0	Ampere
Code name	Lexa	GA106
Launch date	20 Apr 2017	11 May 2021
Place in performance rating	278	279
Type		Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1183 MHz	1035 MHz
Compute units	8
Core clock speed	1100 MHz	735 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	8 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	75.71 GFLOPS (1:16)	82.80 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	1,211 GFLOPS (1:1)	5.299 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	1,211 GFLOPS	5.299 TFLOPS
Pipelines	512	2560
Pixel fill rate	18.93 GPixel/s	49.68 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	37.86 GTexel/s	82.80 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	75 Watt
Transistor count	2200 million	12000 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI 2.0b, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a	Portable Device Dependent
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Dual-slot	IGP
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	PCIe 4.0 x16
Length	145 mm, 5.7 inches
Recommended system power (PSU)	250 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	12 (12_0)	12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL	2.1	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.7 (6.4)	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	56.00 GB/s	192.0 GB/s
Memory bus width	64 bit	128 bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz, 7 Gbps effective	1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR6