amd
Brand2GB GDDR5
Memory512
Cores112 GB/s
BandwidthAMD Radeon 550X
nvidia
Brand24GB GDDR6X
Memory10496
Cores936.2 GB/s
BandwidthNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090
AMD Radeon 550X
Radeon 550X
$ • Mar 2019
GeForce RTX 3090
$1499 • Aug 2020
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090
Specs Comparison
| Specification | AMD Radeon 550X | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 |
|---|---|---|
| Memory Size | 2 GB | 24 GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR6X |
| TDP | 50 W | 350 W |
| Core Clock | N/A | N/A |
| Boost Clock | 1218 MHz | 1695 MHz |
| Memory Bandwidth | 112 GB/s | 936.2 GB/s |
| Process Size | 14nm | 8nm |
| Architecture | GCN 4.0 | Ampere |
| Shading Units | 512 | 10496 |
| RT Cores | N/A | 82 |
| TMUs | 32 | 328 |
| ROPs | 16 | 112 |
| Memory Bus | 128-bit | 384-bit |
| Memory Clock | 1750 MHz | 1219 MHz |
| Pixel Rate | 19.49 GPixel/s | 189.8 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 112 GTexel/s | 936.2 GTexel/s |
| FP32 Performance | 1 GFLOPS | 35.58 GFLOPS |
| L2 Cache | 0.50 MB | 6.00 MB |
| Die Size | 103 mm² | 628 mm² |
| Transistors | 2200 Million | 28300 Million |
| Required PSU | 250 W | 750 W |
| Power Connectors | None | 1x 12-pin |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 3.0 x8 | PCIe 4.0 x16 |
| DirectX | 12 | 12.2 |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | 1.3 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| Foundry | GlobalFoundries | Samsung |
Comparison in Synthetic Benchmarks
3DMark Time Spy
Synthetic DirectX 12 benchmark that measures GPU performance in gaming workloads
Graphics Score
AMD Radeon 550X
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090
Geekbench 6
Cross-platform benchmark that measures GPU compute performance using OpenCL and Metal APIs
OpenCL Score
AMD Radeon 550X
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090
GFXBench 5.0
Cross-platform 3D graphics benchmark suite that measures GPU performance across different APIs
Aztec Ruins High (FPS)
AMD Radeon 550X
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090
PassMark G2D
Comprehensive 2D graphics benchmark that measures GPU performance in various graphics operations
G2D Mark
AMD Radeon 550X
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090
Game Benchmarks Comparison
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Wins!
Based on 4 synthetic benchmarks
AMD Radeon 550X
AMD • 2GB GDDR5
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090
NVIDIA • 24GB GDDR6X
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