NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 550 Ti to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060's Advantages

Released 9 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock 1777MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 98.50GB/s)

3392 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti's Advantages

Lower TDP (116W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 +1743%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 550 Ti

0.691 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060

VS

GeForce GTX 550 Ti

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Mar 2011

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320MHz

Base Clock

-

1777MHz

Boost Clock

-

1875MHz

Memory Clock

1026MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

192bit

360.0 GB/s

Bandwidth

98.50 GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

4

-

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

192

112

TMUs

32

48

ROPs

24

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

3MB

L2 Cache

384KB

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.200 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

28.80 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

691.2 GFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

57.60 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

GF116

GA106-300-A1

GPU Variant

GF116-400-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

12,000 million

Transistors

1,170 million

276mm²

Die Size

238mm²

Board Design

170W

TDP

116W

450W

Suggested PSU

300W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

2.1

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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