NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 550 Ti and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 12 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 350W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1710MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (912.4GB/s vs 98.50GB/s)

8768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 550 Ti

0.691 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +4334%

30.64 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 550 Ti

VS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

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 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1260 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1710 MHz

1026 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

192bit

Memory Bus

384bit

98.50GB/s

Bandwidth

912.4GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

70

-

Compute Units

-

192

Shading Units

8960

32

TMUs

280

24

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

280

-

RT Cores

70

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

384 KB

L2 Cache

5 MB

Theoretical Performance

7.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

164.2 GPixel/s

28.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

478.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

30.64 TFLOPS

691.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

30.64 TFLOPS

57.60 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

478.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GF116

GPU Name

GA102

GF116-400-A1

GPU Variant

GA102-220-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

Board Design

116W

TDP

350W

300 W

Suggested PSU

750 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 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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