NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 555 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 555 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 555 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 91.87GB/s)

3296 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 555 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 195W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 +1402%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 555 OEM

0.848 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

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GeForce GTX 555 OEM

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

May 2011

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

-

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

957 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

91.87GB/s

Render Config

-

28

SM Count

6

3584

Shading Units

288

112

TMUs

48

64

ROPs

24

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

384 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

113.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.832 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

35.33 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

847.9 GFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

70.66 GFLOPS

Board Design

195W

TDP

150W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

GF114

GA104

GPU Variant

GF114-200-KB-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

1.95 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

332 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

8.6

CUDA

2.1

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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