GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Max-Q vs Radeon Pro 555X

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking498not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency7.74no data
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code namePolaris 21GA107
Market segmentMobile workstationLaptop
Release date16 July 2018 (6 years ago)11 May 2021 (3 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 cores7682560
Core clock speed907 MHz735 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1035 MHz
Number of transistors3,000 million8,700 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Watt75 Watt
Texture fill rate43.5482.80
Floating-point processing power1.393 TFLOPS5.299 TFLOPS
ROPs1632
TMUs4880
Tensor Coresno data80
Ray Tracing Coresno data20

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 3.0 x8PCIe 4.0 x8
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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount4 GB4 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1275 MHz1375 MHz
Memory bandwidth81.6 GB/s176.0 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 outputsPortable Device Dependent

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

FreeSync+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.46.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.03.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.3
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 16 July 2018 11 May 2021
Chip lithography 14 nm 8 nm

RTX 3050 Ti Max-Q has an age advantage of 2 years, and a 75% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon Pro 555X and GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon Pro 555X is a mobile workstation card while GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Max-Q is a mobile workstation one.


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AMD Radeon Pro 555X
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