GeForce GT 555M and GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 6 GB - video card comparison

GeForce GT 555M

GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 6 GB

Architecture

Fermi (2010−2014)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

N12E-GE-B

GA107

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

January 2011

July 2022

Bus support

PCI Express 2.0

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x8

Supplementary power connectors

None

SLI options

Boost clock speed

753 MHz

990 MHz

Core clock speed

Up to 753 MHz

CUDA cores

Up to 144

Floating-point performance

388.8 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

1,170 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

144

2048

Power consumption (TDP)

35 Watt

Texture fill rate

Up to 16.2 billion/sec

63.36

Memory type

DDR3\DDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

3 GB

6 GB

Memory bus width

Up to 192 bit/128 Bit

96 Bit

Memory clock speed

Up to 1569 MHz

12 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

Up to 50.2 GB/s

144.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

No outputs

Portable Device Dependent

DirectX

12 API

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.6

OpenCL

1.1

3.0

OpenGL

4.5

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

6.7

Vulkan

N/A

1.3

3D Blu-Ray

3D Gaming

Optimus