NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce MX550
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Oct 2022
Jan 2022
Generation
GeForce 30
GeForce MX
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1320 MHz
1065 MHz
Boost Clock
1777 MHz
1320 MHz
Memory Clock
1875 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR6
Memory Bus
128bit
64bit
Bandwidth
240.0GB/s
96.00GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
28
16
Shading Units
3584
1024
TMUs
112
32
ROPs
48
16
Tensor Cores
112
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RT Cores
28
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L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
3 MB
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
85.30 GPixel/s
21.12 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
199.0 GTexel/s
42.24 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
12.74 TFLOPS
2.703 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
12.74 TFLOPS
2.703 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
199.0 GFLOPS
42.24 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA106
TU117
GPU Variant
GA106-302-A1
MX550
Architecture
Ampere
Turing
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
12 nm
Transistors
12 billion
4.7 billion
Die Size
276 mm²
200 mm²
Board Design
TDP
170W
25W
Suggested PSU
450 W
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Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
No outputs
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
None
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
CUDA
8.6
7.5
Shader Model
6.6
6.6
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.