NVIDIA T600 Laptop GPU vs NVIDIA RTX 3000 Ada Generation Laptop GPU vs NVIDIA T550 Laptop GPU
NVIDIA T600 Laptop GPU
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The Nvidia T600 Laptop GPU (or Quadro T600 for laptops) is a professional mobile graphics card that is based on the Turing architecture (TU117 chip). It is similar to the consumer GTX 1650 with 896 CUDA cores and a 128 Bit memory bus for GDDR6 graphics memory (10 Gbits). The chip is manufactured in 12nm FinFET at TSMC. The T600 was introduced as a refresh together with the T1200 and should be slightly slower than the older Quadro T1000 (2.6 versus 2.5 TFLOPS peak SP performance).
The Turing generation did not only introduce raytracing for the RTX cards, but also optimized the architecture of the cores and caches. According to Nvidia the CUDA cores offer now a concurrent execution of floating point and integer operations for increased performance in compute-heavy workloads of modern games.
Furthermore, the caches were reworked (new unified memory architecture with twice the cache compared to Pascal). This leads to up to 50% more instructions per clock and a 40% more power efficient usage compared to Pascal. In contrary to the faster Quadro RTX cards, the T600 do not feature raytracing and Tensor cores.
Currently Nvidia only specifies the TDP of 25 Watt (the older T1000 had a TGP of 40-50 Watt). Therefore, the T600 should be well suited for thin and light laptops.
NVIDIA RTX 3000 Ada Generation Laptop GPU
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The Nvidia RTX 3000 Ada Generation, not to be confused with the A3000, P3000 or RTX 3000 Turing Generation, is a higher-end professional graphics card for use in laptops that sports 4,608 CUDA cores and 8 GB of ECC GDDR6 VRAM (error correction can be turned off if desired). It would be fair to say that this is a GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop in disguise; consequently, the graphics card is fast enough for many games at 1440p with quality set to High. Brought into existence in 2023, the RTX 3000 leverages TSMC's 5 nm process and Nvidia's Ada Lovelace architecture to achieve very decent performance combined with moderate power consumption. The Nvidia-recommended TGP range for the card is very wide at 35 W to 140 W leading to bizarre performance differences between different systems powered by what is supposed to be the same product.
Quadro series graphics cards ship with much different BIOS and drivers than GeForce cards and are targeted at professional use rather than gaming. Commercial product design, large-scale calculations, simulation, data mining, 24 x 7 operation, certified drivers - if any of this sounds familiar, then a Quadro card will make you happy.
Architecture and Features
Ada Lovelace brings a range of improvements over older graphics cards utilizing the outgoing Ampere architecture. It's not just a better manufacturing process and a higher number of CUDA cores that we have here (up to 16,384 versus 10,752); under-the-hood refinements are plentiful, including an immensely larger L2 cache, an optimized ray tracing routine (a smarter technique is used to determine what is transparent and what isn't), and other changes. Naturally, these graphics cards can both encode and decode some of the most widely used video codecs, AVC, HEVC and AV1 included; they also support a host of Nvidia technologies, including Optimus and DLSS 3, and they can certainly be used for various AI tasks.
The RTX 3000 Ada features 36 RT cores of the 3rd generation, 144 Tensor cores of the 4th generation and 4,608 CUDA cores, making it ~11% inferior to the RTX 3500 Ada Generation as long as we disregard clock speed differences. (The 3500 also has more VRAM). The RTX 3000 comes with 8 GB of 128-bit wide ECC GDDR6 memory for throughput of ~256 GB/s. The fact that error correction is present here proves that the graphics adapter is indeed targeted at professional users, and it can be disabled if desired.
Just like Ampere-based cards, the RTX 3000 makes use of the PCI-Express 4 protocol. 8K SUHD monitors are supported, however, DP 1.4a video outputs can potentially prove to be a bottleneck down the line.
Performance
Having reviewed the Dell Precision 5480 and its 50 W RTX 3000 Ada in September 2023, we can firmly say the graphics card is in the same league as the RTX 4060 Laptop and the RTX 4050 Laptop, despite sharing most of its specifications with the RTX 4070 Laptop. 48 seconds in the Blender 3.3 Classroom CUDA test and a 3DMark 11 Performance GPU score of less than 30,000 points are nothing to write home about. The GPU's gaming talents are not mind-blowing, either, although it is certainly capable enough for 1080p gaming.
- Tiny Tina's Wonderlands - almost 90 fps at 1080p / High
- Cyberpunk 2077 - over 60 fps at 1080p / High
Nvidia's marketing materials mention "up to 20 TFLOPS" of performance, a very noticeable improvement over 14.5 TFLOPS delivered by the RTX 2000 Ada Generation. Your mileage may vary depending on how competent the cooling solution of your laptop is and how high the TGP power target of the graphics card is. A 100 W RTX 3000 Ada might be able to come close to the average RTX 4070 Laptop.
One other thing worth mentioning is that enabling error correction appears to reduce the amount of video memory that is available to applications and games by up to a gigabyte.
Power consumption
Nvidia no longer divides its laptop graphics cards into Max-Q and non-max-Q models. Instead, laptop makers are free to set the TGP according to their needs, and the range can sometimes be shockingly wide. This is especially the case for the RTX 3000, as the lowest value recommended for it sits at just 35 W while the highest is 300% higher at 140 W (this most likely includes Dynamic Boost). This is the kind of delta that we've be seeing on consumer-grade laptops featuring the latest GeForce RTX cards.
Last but not the least, the improved 5 nm process (TSMC 4N) the RTX 3000 Ada is built with makes for very decent energy efficiency, as of mid 2023.
NVIDIA T550 Laptop GPU
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The Nvidia T550 Laptop GPU (formerly known as Quadro T550 Mobile) for laptops is a professional mobile graphics card that is based on the Turing architecture (TU117 chip). It is based on the consumer GeForce MX550 and features the same 1024 cores and a 64 Bit memory bus. The card offers 4 GB GDDR6 with a maximum bandwidth of 112 GB/s and no dedicated display outputs (iGPU display outputs used via Optimus). The chip is manufactured in 12nm FinFET at TSMC.
The professional GPUs offer certified drivers, which are optimized for stability and performance in professional applications (CAD, DCC, medical, prospection, and visualizing applications). The performance in these areas is therefore much better compared to corresponding consumer GPUs.
The Turing generation did not only introduce raytracing for the RTX cards, but also optimized the architecture of the cores and caches. According to Nvidia the CUDA cores offer now a concurrent execution of floating point and integer operations for increased performance in compute-heavy workloads of modern games. Furthermore, the caches were reworked (new unified memory architecture with twice the cache compared to Pascal). This leads to up to 50% more instructions per clock and a 40% more power efficient usage compared to Pascal. In contrary to the faster Quadro RTX cards, the T550 does not feature raytracing and Tensor cores.
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| Architecture | Turing | Ada Lovelace | Turing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Pipelines | 896 - unified | 4608 - unified | 1024 - unified | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Core Speed | 1400 (Boost) MHz | 1065 - 1665 (Boost) MHz | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Memory Speed | 10000 MHz | 16000 effective = 2000 MHz | 12000 effective = 1500 MHz | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Memory Bus Width | 128 Bit | 128 Bit | 64 Bit | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Memory Type | GDDR6 | GDDR6 | GDDR5, GDDR6 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Max. Amount of Memory | 4 GB | 8 GB | 4 GB | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Shared Memory | no | no | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| API | DirectX 12_1, OpenGL 4.6 | DirectX 12 Ultimate, Shader 6.7, OpenGL 4.6, OpenCL 3.0, Vulkan 1.3 | DirectX 12_1, Shader 6.7, OpenGL 4.6 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Power Consumption | 40 Watt | 115 Watt (35 - 115 Watt TGP) | 25 Watt (20 - 60 Watt TGP) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| technology | 12 nm | 5 nm | 12 nm | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Features | 2.5 TFLOPS SP max. performance, DisplayPort 1.4, HDMI 2.0b, PCIe 4.0 x8, 160 GB/s memory bandwidth | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notebook Size | medium sized | large | medium sized | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of Announcement | 12.04.2021 | 21.03.2023 | 27.05.2022 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Link to Manufacturer Page | www.nvidia.com | images.nvidia.com | nvdam.widen.net | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| TMUs | 144 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ROPs | 48 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Raytracing Cores | 36 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tensor / AI Cores | 144 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cache | L2: 32 MB | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Memory Bandwidth | 256 GB/s | 112 GB/s | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| PCIe | 4.0 x16 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Displays | 4 Displays (max.), HDMI 2.1, DisplayPort 1.4a | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Predecessor | Quadro RTX 3000 (Laptop) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Codename | TU117 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Theoretical Performance | 7.2 TFLOPS FP16, 3.7 TFLOPS FP32 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Information | Optimus only |
Benchmarks
3DM Vant. Perf. total + NVIDIA T600 Laptop GPU
specvp12 sw-03 + NVIDIA RTX 3000 Ada Generation Laptop GPU
Cinebench R15 OpenGL 64 Bit + NVIDIA T600 Laptop GPU
GFXBench T-Rex HD Offscreen C24Z16 + NVIDIA T600 Laptop GPU
Average Benchmarks NVIDIA T600 Laptop GPU → 100% n=27
Average Benchmarks NVIDIA RTX 3000 Ada Generation Laptop GPU → 244% n=27
Average Benchmarks NVIDIA T550 Laptop GPU → 73% n=27
- Average benchmark values for this graphics card* Smaller numbers mean a higher performance
1 This benchmark is not used for the average calculation
Game Benchmarks
The following benchmarks stem from our benchmarks of review laptops. The performance depends on the used graphics memory, clock rate, processor, system settings, drivers, and operating systems. So the results don't have to be representative for all laptops with this GPU. For detailed information on the benchmark results, click on the fps number.
Baldur's Gate 3
2023
F1 22
2022
Vampire Bloodhunt
2022
Ghostwire Tokyo
2022
Cyberpunk 2077 1.6
2022
Elex 2
2022
GRID Legends
2022
Elden Ring
2022
Dying Light 2
2022
Farming Simulator 22
2021
Riders Republic
2021
Deathloop
2021
F1 2021
2021
Strange Brigade
2018
Far Cry 5
2018
X-Plane 11.11
2018
Dota 2 Reborn
2015
The Witcher 3
2015
GTA V
2015Average Gaming NVIDIA T600 Laptop GPU → 100%
Average Gaming 30-70 fps → 100%
Average Gaming NVIDIA RTX 3000 Ada Generation Laptop GPU → 210%
Average Gaming NVIDIA T550 Laptop GPU → 75%
Average Gaming 30-70 fps → 73%
| NVIDIA T600 Laptop GPU | NVIDIA RTX 3000 Ada Generation Laptop GPU | NVIDIA T550 Laptop GPU | |||||||||||||||||||
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| low | med. | high | ultra | QHD | 4K | low | med. | high | ultra | QHD | 4K | low | med. | high | ultra | QHD | 4K | ||||
| Cyberpunk 2077 2.2 Phantom Liberty | 96 | 80 | 67 | 58 | 39.6 | ||||||||||||||||
| Baldur's Gate 3 | 111 | 95 | 84 | 83 | 68.7 | ||||||||||||||||
| F1 22 | 191 | 180 | 141 | 55 | 40.7 | 69 | 62 | 43 | 31 | ||||||||||||
| Tiny Tina's Wonderlands | 57.5 | 32.8 | 48.3 | 27.2 | 168 | 138 | 96 | 76 | 60.5 | ||||||||||||
| Cyberpunk 2077 1.6 | 92.3 | 72.4 | 61.2 | 56.2 | |||||||||||||||||
| Strange Brigade | 190.4 | 76.2 | 60.7 | 52.7 | 366 | 207 | 168 | 149 | 118.6 | 131 | 52 | 42 | 36 | ||||||||
| Far Cry 5 | 105 | 53 | 49 | 45 | 141 | 118 | 113 | 105 | 93 | 75 | 41 | 38 | 35 | ||||||||
| X-Plane 11.11 | 107.9 | 92.4 | 77 | 131 | 113 | 89 | 70 | 63 | 57 | ||||||||||||
| Final Fantasy XV Benchmark | 86 | 43.9 | 31 | 158 | 110 | 83 | 71.3 | 62 | 31 | 22 | |||||||||||
| Dota 2 Reborn | 149.4 | 127.6 | 115.8 | 107.1 | 173 | 157 | 145 | 137 | 117 | 105 | 95 | 88 | |||||||||
| The Witcher 3 | 158.6 | 92.7 | 52.2 | 27.6 | 354 | 246 | 148 | 79 | 128 | 75 | 41 | 21 | |||||||||
| GTA V | 142.6 | 137.6 | 82.3 | 44.1 | 183 | 177 | 164 | 92 | 76.1 | 116 | 114 | 62 | 29 | ||||||||
| NVIDIA T600 Laptop GPU | NVIDIA RTX 3000 Ada Generation Laptop GPU | NVIDIA T550 Laptop GPU | |||||||||||||||||||
| low | med. | high | ultra | QHD | 4K | low | med. | high | ultra | QHD | 4K | low | med. | high | ultra | QHD | 4K | < 30 fps < 60 fps < 120 fps ≥ 120 fps | 1 3 4 | 3 3 2 | 4 4 | 2 3 1 | | | < 30 fps < 60 fps < 120 fps ≥ 120 fps | 3 9 | 6 6 | 7 5 | 3 5 2 | 2 6 | | < 30 fps < 60 fps < 120 fps ≥ 120 fps | 6 2 | 3 5 | 1 5 2 | 2 3 1 | | |
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