Gainward GeForce RTX 3050 Ghost OC
vs
PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 4GB GDDR5 Low Profile


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The Gainward GeForce RTX 3050 Ghost OC has 2560 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.82 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 9.33 TFLOPS.

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 4GB GDDR5 Low Profile has 512 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.07 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 1.10 TFLOPS.

GPU

The Gainward GeForce RTX 3050 Ghost OC is equipped with a graphics chip of the Ampere architecture, which has 20 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 4GB GDDR5 Low Profile is based on the GCN 4 architecture and is equipped with 8 execution units.
Gainward GeForce RTX 3050 Ghost OC GPU PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 4GB GDDR5 Low Profile
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Based on AMD Radeon RX 550 (Baffin 8 CU)
GA106-150-A1 GPU Chip Baffin LE
Ampere Architecture GCN 4
20 Streaming Multiprocessors 8
2560 Shader 512
48 Render Output Units 16
80 Texture Units 32
20 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The Gainward GeForce RTX 3050 Ghost OC is equipped with a 8 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.750 GHz clocks.

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 4GB GDDR5 Low Profile has a 4 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.500GHz.

8 GB Memory Size 4 GB
GDDR6 Memory Type GDDR5
1.750 GHz Memory Clock 1.500 GHz
14.0 Gbps Memory Speed 6.0 Gbps
224 GB/s Memory bandwidth 96 GB/s
128 bit Memory Interface 128 bit

Clock Speeds

The Gainward GeForce RTX 3050 Ghost OC has a turbo clock of 1.822 GHz. The turbo frequency of the PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 4GB GDDR5 Low Profile is 1.071 GHz.

1.552 GHz Base Clock 1.019 GHz
1.822 GHz Boost Clock 1.071 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The Gainward GeForce RTX 3050 Ghost OC has 1 x 8-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 93 °C.

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 4GB GDDR5 Low Profile is equipped with a PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 80 °C.

130 W TDP 50 W
-- TDP (up) --
93 °C Tjunction max 80 °C
1 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the Gainward GeForce RTX 3050 Ghost OC are cooled with a Air cooling.

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 4GB GDDR5 Low Profile is cooled by a Air cooling.

Axial Fan-Type Radial
2 x 90 mm Fan 1 1 x 50 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

The Gainward GeForce RTX 3050 Ghost OC supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.3.

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 4GB GDDR5 Low Profile supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

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

Featureset

The Gainward GeForce RTX 3050 Ghost OC supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_2 (Ultimate).

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 4GB GDDR5 Low Profile supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12.

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

Supported Video Codecs

This area lists which video codecs can be decoded or encoded by the graphics cards in hardware. As a result, the power consumption can be reduced due to a lower processor load.

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

Dimensions

The Gainward GeForce RTX 3050 Ghost OC is -- wide and therefore needs the space of 1 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 4GB GDDR5 Low Profile is -- and thus requires the space of 1 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

245 mm Length 181 mm
119 mm Height 120 mm
-- Width 20 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 1 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 4.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 8

Additional data

Manufactured using the 8 nanometer process, Gainward GeForce RTX 3050 Ghost OC was released in Q1/2022.

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 4GB GDDR5 Low Profile published in Q4/2017 is manufactured with a structure width of 14 nanometers.

NE63050T19P1-190AB Part-no AXRX 550 4GBD5-HLE
Q1/2022 Release date Q4/2017
249 $ (Reference) Launch Price 79 $
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)

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8 GB GDDR6
26 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p)

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8 GB GDDR6
39 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

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8 GB GDDR6
42 fps (avg)

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)

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8 GB GDDR6
18 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

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8 GB GDDR6
45 fps (avg)

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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