NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB vs AMD Radeon RX 550

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB and AMD Radeon RX 550 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. 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.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB

AMD Radeon RX 550

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB

Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 2 month(s) later
Around 40% higher core clock speed: 1545 MHz vs 1100 MHz
Around 47% higher boost clock speed: 1740 MHz vs 1183 MHz
3309.6x more texture fill rate: 125.3 GTexel/s vs 37.86 GTexel / s
4.5x more pipelines: 2304 vs 512
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 8 nm vs 14 nm
Around 98% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 942 vs 476
4.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 12873 vs 2690
4.3x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 49885 vs 11610

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	2022 vs 18 April 2017
Core clock speed	1545 MHz vs 1100 MHz
Boost clock speed	1740 MHz vs 1183 MHz
Texture fill rate	125.3 GTexel/s vs 37.86 GTexel / s
Pipelines	2304 vs 512
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm vs 14 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	942 vs 476
PassMark - G3D Mark	12873 vs 2690
Geekbench - OpenCL	49885 vs 11610

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 550

Around 80% lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 90 Watt
4x more memory clock speed: 7000 MHz vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt vs 90 Watt
Memory clock speed	7000 MHz vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX 550

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

942

476

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

12873

2690

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

49885

11610

Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB	AMD Radeon RX 550
PassMark - G2D Mark	942	476
PassMark - G3D Mark	12873	2690
Geekbench - OpenCL	49885	11610
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		33.507
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		1037.305
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		3.064
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		52.533
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		140.911
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		4485
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		940
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		2158
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		4485
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		940
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		2158
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		127

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB	AMD Radeon RX 550
Essentials
Architecture	Ampere	GCN 4.0
Code name	GA107	Lexa
Launch date	2022	18 April 2017
Place in performance rating	88	876
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Design		Radeon RX 500 Series
GCN generation		4th Gen
Launch price (MSRP)		$79
Price now		$75
Value for money (0-100)		59.51
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1740 MHz	1183 MHz
Core clock speed	1545 MHz	1100 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	14 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	125.3 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	8.018 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	8.018 TFLOPS
Pipelines	2304	512
Pixel fill rate	55.68 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	125.3 GTexel/s	37.86 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	90 Watt	50 Watt
Floating-point performance		1.2 TFLOPs
Transistor count		2,200 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
HDMI
Dual-link DVI support
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Dual-slot
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	PCIe 3.0 x8
Length	242 mm, 9.5 inches	145 mm
Recommended system power (PSU)	250 Watt	400 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	None
Width	112 mm, 4.4 inches
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12
OpenCL	3.0	2.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	224.0 GB/s	112 GB/s
Memory bus width	128 bit	128 bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective	7000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5
Technologies
4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Eyefinity
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
AppAcceleration
FreeSync
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support
LiquidVR
PowerTune
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)