GeForce GT 555M 3 GB vs Arc A310

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking363not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency13.14no data
ArchitectureGeneration 12.7 (2022−2023)Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code nameDG2-128GF106
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date12 October 2022 (2 years ago)24 March 2011 (13 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores768144
Core clock speed2000 MHz590 MHz
Boost clock speed2000 MHzno data
Number of transistors7,200 million1,170 million
Manufacturing process technology6 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Watt35 Watt
Texture fill rate64.0014.16
Floating-point processing power3.072 TFLOPS0.3398 TFLOPS
ROPs1624
TMUs3224
Tensor Cores96no data
Ray Tracing Cores6no data

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x8PCIe 2.0 x16
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR6DDR3
Maximum RAM amount4 GB3 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed1937 MHz900 MHz
Memory bandwidth124.0 GB/s43.2 GB/s
Shared memory-no data

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 (11_0)
Shader Model6.65.1
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.01.1
Vulkan1.3N/A
CUDA-2.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 12 October 2022 24 March 2011
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 3 GB
Chip lithography 6 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 75 Watt 35 Watt

Arc A310 has an age advantage of 11 years, a 33.3% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 566.7% more advanced lithography process.

GT 555M 3 GB, on the other hand, has 114.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Arc A310 and GeForce GT 555M 3 GB. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Arc A310 is a desktop card while GeForce GT 555M 3 GB is a notebook one.


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Intel Arc A310
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