GeForce MX550 and GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X - video card comparison

GeForce MX550

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

Architecture

Turing (2018−2021)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

GN18-S5

GA104

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

December 2021

October 2022

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

1x 12-pin

Boost clock speed

1320 MHz

1665 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

12 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

4,700 million

17,400 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1024

4864

Power consumption (TDP)

15-25 Watt

225 Watt

Texture fill rate

42.24

253.1

Memory type

GDDR6

GDDR6X

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

8 GB

Memory bus width

64 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

12000 MHz

19 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

96 GB/s

608.3 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

No outputs

1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

HDMI

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

7.5

8.6

OpenCL

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.6

6.7

Vulkan

1.2

1.3

Optimus