NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 550M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q 's Advantages

Released 10 years late

Boost Clock1282MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

3744 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (35W vs 60W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q +3366%

9.846 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 550M

0.284 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

VS

GeForce GT 550M

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Jan 2011

GeForce 30 Mobile

Generation

GeForce 500M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

817 MHz

Base Clock

-

1282 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

DDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

-

30

SM Count

2

3840

Shading Units

96

120

TMUs

16

48

ROPs

4

120

Tensor Cores

-

30

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

61.54 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.960 GPixel/s

153.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

11.84 GTexel/s

9.846 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

9.846 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

284.2 GFLOPS

153.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

23.68 GFLOPS

Board Design

60W

TDP

35W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

GF108

-

GPU Variant

N12P-GT1-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Fermi

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

12 billion

Transistors

0.585 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

116 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

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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