NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs AMD Radeon RX 550X

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 284.17
$ 254.31
$ 29.86 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5276 points
1037% significantly better overall score
464 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

126 FPS
115 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
11 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

61 FPS
53 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
8 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

88 FPS
77 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
12 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

48 FPS
44 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
4 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

96416 points
679% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
12373 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

74845 points
472% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
13079 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

89510 points
695% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
11245 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

86221 points
590% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
12485 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1320 MHz
20% slightly higher core clock speed
1100 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1777 MHz
38% slightly higher boost clock speed
1287 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

12 GiB
200% significantly more memory
4 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit
49% significantly larger memory bus width
128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

360 GB/s
221% significantly higher memory bandwidth
112 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

170 W
50 W
239% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

85.3 Gigapixels/s
314% significantly higher pixel rate
20.6 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

199 Gigatexels/s
286% significantly higher texture rate
51.48 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3584
599% significantly more shading units
512

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112
180% significantly more texture mapping units
40

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

48
200% significantly more render output processors
16

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

98th of 590
339th of 590

Family

The product line

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Radeon RX 500X Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January
2018 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

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