GPU Comparison

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti

CORE STATE GF116

VRAM 1024 MB

CLOCK SPEED —

TDP 116 W

BUS WIDTH 192 bit

ARCHITECTURE Fermi 2.0

nm

PROCESS 40 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2011

VS

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

CORE STATE GA104

VRAM 8 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1665 MHz

TDP 200 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Ampere

nm

PROCESS 8 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2020

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

geekbench_opencl

5,731

109,075

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

N/A

2,626

geekbench_vulkan

N/A

107,543

passmark_directx_10

N/A

132

passmark_directx_11

N/A

163

passmark_directx_12

N/A

78

passmark_directx_9

N/A

234

passmark_g2d

N/A

989

passmark_g3d

N/A

20,349

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

10,006

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

GTX 550 Ti

RTX 3060 Ti

Core Specs

Shading Units

192

4,864 +2433.3%

Shaders

192

4,864 +2433.3%

TMUs

32

152 +375.0%

ROPs

24

80 +233.3%

SM Count

4

38 +850.0%

Clocks

Base Clock

—

1410 MHz

Boost Clock

—

1665 MHz

GPU Clock

900 MHz

—

Shader Clock

1800 MHz

—

Memory Clock

1026 MHz 4.1 Gbps effective

1750 MHz 14 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

1024 MB

8 GB

VRAM (MB)

1,024

8,192 +700.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Memory Bus

192 bit

256 bit

Bandwidth

98.50 GB/s

448.0 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

128 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

384 KB

4 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

7.200 GPixel/s

133.2 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

28.80 GTexel/s

253.1 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

691.2 GFLOPS

16.20 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

57.60 GFLOPS (1:12)

253.1 GFLOPS (1:64)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

16.20 TFLOPS (1:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

38

Tensor Cores

—

152

Power

TDP

116 W

200 W

TDP (W)

116

200 +72.4%

Suggested PSU

300 W

550 W

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

1x 12-pin

Architecture

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

Ampere

GPU Name

GF116

GA104

Generation

GeForce 500

GeForce 30

Process Size

40 nm

8 nm

Transistors

1,170 million

17,400 million

Die Size

238 mm²

392 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

Samsung

Density

4.9M / mm²

44.4M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (11_0)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

—

1.4

OpenCL

1.1

3.0

CUDA

2.1

8.6

Shader Model

5.1

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Dual-slot

Length

210 mm 8.3 inches

242 mm 9.5 inches

Height

—

112 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

2x DVI1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

149 USD

399 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

GeForce 400

GeForce 20

Successor

GeForce 600

GeForce 40

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