NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 550

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

NVIDIA Quadro FX 550

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3090 and 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 's Advantages

Released 14 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1695MHz

More VRAM (24GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (936.2GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

10496 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro FX 550 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 350W)

Score

GeForce RTX 3090

VS

Quadro FX 550

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

Apr 2006

GeForce 30

Generation

Quadro FX Curie

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1395 MHz

Base Clock

-

1695 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1219 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

128MB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

936.2GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

82

SM Count

-

10496

Shading Units

-

328

TMUs

8

112

ROPs

4

328

Tensor Cores

-

82

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

6 MB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

189.8 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.440 GPixel/s

556.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.880 GTexel/s

35.58 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

35.58 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

556.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

350W

TDP

30W

750 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

NV43

GA102-300-A1

GPU Variant

NV43 GL

Ampere

Architecture

Curie

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

110 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

0.146 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

154 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

3.0

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