GeForce RTX 3070 and Quadro FX 550M - video card comparison

GeForce RTX 3070

Quadro FX 550M

Architecture

Ampere (2020−2022)

Curie (2003−2013)

GPU code name

Ampere GA104

G73

Market segment

Desktop

Mobile workstation

Release date

September 2020

March 2006

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

PCIe 1.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 12-pin

Boost clock speed

1725 MHz

Core clock speed

1500 MHz

480 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

8 nm

90 nm

Number of transistors

17,400 million

177 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

5888

Power consumption (TDP)

220 Watt

35 Watt

Texture fill rate

317.4

5.760

Memory type

GDDR6

GDDR3

Maximum RAM amount

8 GB

512 MB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

14000 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

448.0 GB/s

16 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

No outputs

HDMI

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

9.0c (9_3)

CUDA

8.5

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

Shader Model

6.5

3.0

Vulkan

1.2

N/A