NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3090 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 550 Ti to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1695MHz

More VRAM (24GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (936.2GB/s vs 98.50GB/s)

10304 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti 's Advantages

Lower TDP (116W vs 350W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3090 +5049%

35.58 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 550 Ti

0.691 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3090

VS

GeForce GTX 550 Ti

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

Mar 2011

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1395 MHz

Base Clock

-

1695 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1219 MHz

Memory Clock

1026 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

192bit

936.2GB/s

Bandwidth

98.50GB/s

Render Config

-

82

SM Count

4

10496

Shading Units

192

328

TMUs

32

112

ROPs

24

328

Tensor Cores

-

82

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

6 MB

L2 Cache

384 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

189.8 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.200 GPixel/s

556.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

28.80 GTexel/s

35.58 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

35.58 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

691.2 GFLOPS

556.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

57.60 GFLOPS

Board Design

350W

TDP

116W

750 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

GF116

GA102-300-A1

GPU Variant

GF116-400-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

1.17 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

238 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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