AMD Radeon RX 550X vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop

Compare AMD Radeon RX 550X 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop 6 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 550X

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

464 points

4562 points

883% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

11 FPS

112 FPS

102 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

8 FPS

57 FPS

49 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

12 FPS

79 FPS

67 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

4 FPS

44 FPS

40 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

12373 points

92420 points

646% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

13079 points

71210 points

444% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

11245 points

84300 points

649% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

12485 points

82804 points

563% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1100 MHz

22% slightly higher core clock speed

900 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1287 MHz

1703 MHz

32% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

5.97 GiB

49% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

192 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

112 GB/s

336 GB/s

200% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

50 W

60% significantly lower TDP

80 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

20.6 Gigapixels/s

68.4 Gigapixels/s

232% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

51.48 Gigatexels/s

171 Gigatexels/s

232% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

512

3840

650% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120

200% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

200% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

344th of 597

110th of 597

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500X Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 March

2021 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

Radeon RX 550X vs GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop beats the Radeon RX 550X in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 550X has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. Despite this, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop has significantly more memory with 5.97 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the Radeon RX 550X has a significantly lower TDP at 50 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop at 80 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop over the Radeon RX 550X.