Matrox G550 PCIe and GeForce RTX 3060 - video card comparison

Matrox G550 PCIe

GeForce RTX 3060

Architecture

G500 (2001−2005)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Condor

Ampere GA106

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

July 2005

January 2021

Interface

PCIe 1.0 x1

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 12-pin

Boost clock speed

1777 MHz

Core clock speed

125 MHz

1320 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

180 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

10 million

13,250 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

3584

Power consumption (TDP)

170 Watt

Texture fill rate

0.25

199.0

Memory type

DDR

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

32 MB

12 GB

Memory bus width

64 Bit

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

332 MHz

15000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

2.656 GB/s

360.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

2x DVI

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

8.0

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.6

OpenCL

N/A

2.0

OpenGL

1.5

4.6

Shader Model

6.5

Vulkan

N/A

1.2