GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs GeForce RTX 3090
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 550 Ti and 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3090 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 550 Ti Advantages
Lower TDP (116W vs 350W)
GeForce RTX 3090 Advantages
Released 9 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock1695MHz
More VRAM (24GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (936.2GB/s vs 98.50GB/s)
10304 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 550 Ti
691
GeForce RTX 3090
+5049%
35580
Graphics Card
Mar 2011
Release Date
Sep 2020
GeForce 500
Generation
GeForce 30
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1395 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1695 MHz
1026 MHz
Memory Clock
1219 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
24GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6X
192bit
Memory Bus
384bit
98.50GB/s
Bandwidth
936.2GB/s
Render Config
4
SM Count
82
192
Shading Units
10496
32
TMUs
328
24
ROPs
112
-
Tensor Cores
328
-
RT Cores
82
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
384 KB
L2 Cache
6 MB
Theoretical Performance
7.200 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
189.8 GPixel/s
28.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
556.0 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
35.58 TFLOPS
691.2 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
35.58 TFLOPS
57.60 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
556.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
116W
TDP
350W
300 W
Suggested PSU
750 W
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
Graphics Processor
GF116
GPU Name
GA102
GF116-400-A1
GPU Variant
GA102-300-A1
Fermi 2.0
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
40 nm
Process Size
8 nm
1.17 billion
Transistors
28.3 billion
238 mm²
Die Size
628 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
8.6
5.1
Shader Model
6.6
