NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Max Q

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Max Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 550M and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (35W vs 80W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Max Q 's Advantages

Released 10 years late

Boost Clock1245MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

6048 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 550M

0.284 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 Max Q +5287%

15.3 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 550M

VS

GeForce RTX 3080 Max Q

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Jan 2021

GeForce 500M

Generation

GeForce 30 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

780 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1245 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

384.0GB/s

Render Config

-

2

SM Count

48

96

Shading Units

6144

16

TMUs

192

4

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

192

-

RT Cores

48

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.960 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

119.5 GPixel/s

11.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

239.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

15.30 TFLOPS

284.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

15.30 TFLOPS

23.68 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

239.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

35W

TDP

80W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF108

GPU Name

GA104

N12P-GT1-A1

GPU Variant

GA104-775-A1

Fermi

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

40 nm

Process Size

8 nm

0.585 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

116 mm²

Die Size

392 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

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