Quadro FX 550M vs GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking127not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency22.22no data
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code nameGA104G73
Market segmentLaptopMobile workstation
Release date12 January 2021 (3 years ago)13 March 2006 (18 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 cores5120no data
Core clock speed1110 MHz480 MHz
Boost clock speed1560 MHzno data
Number of transistors17,400 million177 million
Manufacturing process technology8 nm90 nm
Power consumption (TDP)125 Watt35 Watt
Texture fill rate249.65.760
Floating-point processing power15.97 TFLOPSno data
ROPs808
TMUs16012
Tensor Cores160no data
Ray Tracing Cores40no 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).

Laptop sizelargeno data
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16PCIe 1.0 x16

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 typeGDDR6GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount8 GB512 MB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz500 MHz
Memory bandwidth448.0 GB/s16 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)9.0c (9_3)
Shader Model6.53.0
OpenGL4.62.1
OpenCL2.0N/A
Vulkan1.2N/A
CUDA8.6-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 12 January 2021 13 March 2006
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 512 MB
Chip lithography 8 nm 90 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 125 Watt 35 Watt

RTX 3070 Mobile has an age advantage of 14 years, a 1500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 1025% more advanced lithography process.

FX 550M, on the other hand, has 257.1% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile and Quadro FX 550M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile is a notebook graphics card while Quadro FX 550M is a mobile workstation one.


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile
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NVIDIA Quadro FX 550M
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