RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation vs GeForce GT 555M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation and 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 555M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
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
GeForce GT 555M 's Advantages
Lower TDP (35W vs 115W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation
+3915%
15620
GeForce GT 555M
389
3DMark Time Spy
RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation
+4516%
8910
GeForce GT 555M
193
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation
+3277%
3580
GeForce GT 555M
106
Graphics Card
Mar 2023
Release Date
Mar 2012
Quadro Ada-M
Generation
GeForce 500M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1395 MHz
Base Clock
-
1695 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2000 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
DDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
256.0GB/s
Bandwidth
28.80GB/s
Render Config
36
SM Count
2
4608
Shading Units
144
144
TMUs
24
48
ROPs
16
144
Tensor Cores
-
36
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
32 MB
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
81.36 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.700 GPixel/s
244.1 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
16.20 GTexel/s
15.62 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
15.62 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
388.8 GFLOPS
244.1 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
32.40 GFLOPS
Board Design
115W
TDP
35W
Portable Device Dependent
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
AD106
GPU Name
GF116
-
GPU Variant
N12E-GE2-A1
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
Fermi 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
40 nm
22.9 billion
Transistors
1.17 billion
188 mm²
Die Size
238 mm²
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
8.9
CUDA
2.1
6.7
Shader Model
5.1
