NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 550 Ti and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti 's Advantages
Lower TDP (116W vs 130W)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB 's Advantages
Released 10 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock1777MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 98.50GB/s)
2368 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 550 Ti
0.691 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB
+1216%
9.098 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2011
Release Date
Jan 2022
GeForce 500
Generation
GeForce 30
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1552 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1777 MHz
1026 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
192bit
Memory Bus
128bit
98.50GB/s
Bandwidth
224.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
20
192
Shading Units
2560
32
TMUs
80
24
ROPs
32
-
Tensor Cores
80
-
RT Cores
20
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
384 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
7.200 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
56.86 GPixel/s
28.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
142.2 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
9.098 TFLOPS
691.2 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
9.098 TFLOPS
57.60 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
142.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
116W
TDP
130W
300 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GF116
GPU Name
GA106
GF116-400-A1
GPU Variant
GA106-150-KA-A1
Fermi 2.0
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
40 nm
Process Size
8 nm
1.17 billion
Transistors
12 billion
238 mm²
Die Size
276 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
