NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 550 Ti and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 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 200W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1665MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 98.50GB/s)

4672 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 550 Ti

0.691 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +2244%

16.2 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 550 Ti

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

Graphics Card

Mar 2011

Release Date

Dec 2020

GeForce 500

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1410 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1665 MHz

1026 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

98.50GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

-

4

SM Count

38

192

Shading Units

4864

32

TMUs

152

24

ROPs

80

-

Tensor Cores

152

-

RT Cores

38

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

384 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

7.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

133.2 GPixel/s

28.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

253.1 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

16.20 TFLOPS

691.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

16.20 TFLOPS

57.60 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

253.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

116W

TDP

200W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

GF116

GPU Name

GA104

GF116-400-A1

GPU Variant

GA104-200-A1

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

40 nm

Process Size

8 nm

1.17 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

238 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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