GeForce GTX 550 Ti and GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 550 Ti
GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
GF116
GA106
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2011
2021
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
One 6-pin
1x 12-pin
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
-
1852 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
12,000 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
192
3840
Power consumption (TDP)
116 Watt
185 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
100 °C
-
Texture fill rate
28.8 billion/sec
222.2
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
6 GB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
4.1 GB/s
14 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
98.4 GB/s
336.0 GB/s
Display Connectors
Two Dual Link DVI-IMini HDMI
1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
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
6.7
Vulkan
N/A
1.3