GeForce GTX 550 Ti and GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 550 Ti
GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
GF116
GA107
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2011
July 2022
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
One 6-pin
None
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
-
990 MHz
Core clock speed
900 MHz
-
CUDA cores
192
-
Floating-point performance
691.2 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
1,170 million
-
Pipelines / CUDA cores
192
2048
Power consumption (TDP)
116 Watt
75 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
100 °C
-
Texture fill rate
28.8 billion/sec
63.36
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
6 GB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
96 Bit
Memory clock speed
4.1 GB/s
12 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
98.4 GB/s
144.0 GB/s
Display Connectors
Two Dual Link DVI-IMini HDMI
No outputs
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
+
8.6
OpenCL
1.1
3.0
OpenGL
4.2
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.6
Vulkan
N/A
1.3