GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile and GeForce GT 555M 2 GB - video card comparison

GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

GeForce GT 555M 2 GB

Architecture

Ampere (2020−2022)

Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)

GPU code name

GN20-E3 GA106

GF116

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

January 2021

March 2012

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

Boost clock speed

1702 MHz

Core clock speed

817 MHz

675 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

8 nm

40 nm

Number of transistors

13,250 million

1,170 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

3840

144

Power consumption (TDP)

115 Watt (60 - 115 Watt TGP)

35 Watt

Texture fill rate

171.0

16.20

Memory type

GDDR6

DDR3

Maximum RAM amount

6 GB

2 GB

Memory bus width

192 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

14000 MHz

1800 MBps

Memory bandwidth

336.0 GB/s

28.8 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

No outputs

Portable Device Dependent

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

12 (11_0)

CUDA

8.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.0

1.1

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.5

5.1

Vulkan

1.2

N/A