ASUS GeForce RTX 3070 Noctua OC Edition
vs
PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB GDDR5 OC V3


GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the ASUS GeForce RTX 3070 Noctua OC Edition and the PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB GDDR5 OC V3, we compare both the technical data and the benchmark results of the two graphics cards.

GPU

The ASUS GeForce RTX 3070 Noctua OC Edition is based on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 and has 5888 texture shaders and 46 execution units.

PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB GDDR5 OC V3 is based on AMD Radeon RX 550 (Baffin 10 CU), which has 640 shaders and 10 execution units.
ASUS GeForce RTX 3070 Noctua OC Edition GPU PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB GDDR5 OC V3
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Based on AMD Radeon RX 550 (Baffin 10 CU)
GA104-300-A1 GPU Chip Baffin LE
Ampere Architecture GCN 4
46 Streaming Multiprocessors 10
5888 Shader 640
96 Render Output Units 16
184 Texture Units 40
46 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The ASUS GeForce RTX 3070 Noctua OC Edition has 8 GB of graphics memory of the type GDDR6 and achieves a memory bandwidth of 448 GB/s.

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB GDDR5 OC V3 can access 2 GB GDDR5 graphics memory and thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 96 GB/s.

8 GB Memory Size 2 GB
GDDR6 Memory Type GDDR5
1.750 GHz Memory Clock 1.500 GHz
14.0 Gbps Memory Speed 6.0 Gbps
448 GB/s Memory bandwidth 96 GB/s
256 bit Memory Interface 128 bit

Clock Speeds

The ASUS GeForce RTX 3070 Noctua OC Edition clocks in the base with up to 1.500 GHz. The base frequency of the PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB GDDR5 OC V3 is 1.019 GHz.

1.500 GHz Base Clock 1.019 GHz
1.845 GHz Boost Clock 1.190 GHz
1.82 GHz Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the ASUS GeForce RTX 3070 Noctua OC Edition is 220 W. The graphics card is supplied with energy via the 2 x 8-Pin connector.

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB GDDR5 OC V3 has a TDP of 60 W and is supplied with the required energy via PCIe power connectors.

220 W TDP 60 W
250 W TDP (up) --
93 °C Tjunction max 80 °C
2 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power

Cooler & Fans

The ASUS GeForce RTX 3070 Noctua OC Edition has a total of 2 Axial fans.

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB GDDR5 OC V3 has 1 Axial fans to cool the GPU and memory.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
2 x 120 mm Fan 1 1 x 80 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) dB
33 dB Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

In the connectivity category, we recorded the number of ports on a graphics card. A total of 4 screens can be connected to the ASUS GeForce RTX 3070 Noctua OC Edition.

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB GDDR5 OC V3 supports a maximum of 4 screens.

4 Max. Displays 4
2.3 HDCP-Version 2.2
2x HDMI v2.1 HDMI Ports 1x HDMI v2.0b
3x DP v1.4a DP Ports 1x DP v1.4
-- DVI Ports 1
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The ASUS GeForce RTX 3070 Noctua OC Edition supports a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum resolution of the PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB GDDR5 OC V3 is 5120x2880 pixels.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 5120x2880
12_2 (Ultimate) DirectX 12
Yes Raytracing No
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
No LED lighting LED No LED lighting

Supported Video Codecs

The support and acceleration of certain video codecs directly in the graphics card reduces the load when playing or creating videos.

Decode / Encode h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode h265 / HEVC Decode / Encode
Decode AV1 No
Decode VP8 Decode
Decode VP9 Decode

Dimensions

The ASUS GeForce RTX 3070 Noctua OC Edition is 310 mm long, 147 mm high and 88 mm wide.

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB GDDR5 OC V3 is 147 mm long, 111 mm high and 38 mm wide.

310 mm Length 147 mm
147 mm Height 111 mm
88 mm Width 38 mm
4 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 4.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 8

Additional data

The ASUS GeForce RTX 3070 Noctua OC Edition was released in Q3/2021 at a price of 499 $ (Reference).

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB GDDR5 OC V3 was introduced in Q3/2018 at a price of 69 $.

RTX3070-O8G-NOCTUA Part-no AXRX 550 2GBD5-DHA/OC
Q3/2021 Release date Q3/2018
499 $ (Reference) Launch Price 69 $
8 nm Structure size 14 nm
data sheet Documents data sheet

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Benchmark results

3DMark Benchmark (DirectX, Raytracing)

3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.

Time Spy Extreme Graphics score

Port Royal (Raytracing)

Speed Way Graphics Score (Raytracing)

Cyberpunk 2077

Cyberpunk 2077 was developed by CD Projekt Red and is based on the development studio's own REDengine 4. Ray tracing is switched off in our benchmarks.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

The Last of Us Part 1

The Last of Us Part One is a game released by Sony in June 2013 exclusively for the Playstation and released for the PC in early 2023. The benchmark values here were determined at high details.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Battlefield 5

Battlefield 5 is a visually stunning game that is ideal as a graphics card benchmark. We test the game with maximum details on Windows 10.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal)

Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.

Geekbench 6 - OpenCL

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan

Geekbench 6 - Metal

FP32 Performance (Single-precision TFLOPS)

The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.

FP32 (TFLOPS)

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