GeForce GT 550M and GeForce RTX 3060 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GT 550M vs GeForce RTX 3060
GeForce GT 550M
590
GeForce RTX 3060
17598
GeForce GT 550M
GeForce RTX 3060
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
N12P-GT
Ampere GA106
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
January 2011
January 2021
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 12-pin
Boost clock speed
-
1777 MHz
Core clock speed
740 MHz
1320 MHz
CUDA cores
96
-
Floating-point performance
284.16 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
585 million
13,250 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
96
3584
Power consumption (TDP)
35 Watt
170 Watt
Texture fill rate
11.8 billion/sec
199.0
Memory type
DDR3
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
1536 MB
12 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
15000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
28.8 GB/s
360.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
12 API
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
+
8.6
OpenCL
1.1
2.0
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.5
Vulkan
N/A
1.2
Optimus
+
-