NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M vs NVIDIA RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 555M and 8GB VRAM RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M 's Advantages
Lower TDP (35W vs 115W)
NVIDIA RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation 's Advantages
Released 11 years late
Boost Clock1695MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)
4464 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 555M
0.389 TFLOPS
RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation
+3915%
15.62 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GT 555M
193
RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation
+4516%
8910
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GT 555M
106
RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation
+3277%
3580
Graphics Card
Mar 2012
Release Date
Mar 2023
GeForce 500M
Generation
Quadro Ada-M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1395 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1695 MHz
900 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
8GB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR6
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
28.80GB/s
Bandwidth
256.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
2
SM Count
36
144
Shading Units
4608
24
TMUs
144
16
ROPs
48
-
Tensor Cores
144
-
RT Cores
36
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
256 KB
L2 Cache
32 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
2.700 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
81.36 GPixel/s
16.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
244.1 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
15.62 TFLOPS
388.8 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
15.62 TFLOPS
32.40 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
244.1 GFLOPS
Board Design
35W
TDP
115W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GF116
GPU Name
AD106
N12E-GE2-A1
GPU Variant
-
Fermi 2.0
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
5 nm
1.17 billion
Transistors
22.9 billion
238 mm²
Die Size
188 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
2.1
CUDA
8.9
5.1
Shader Model
6.7
