GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB vs GeForce 256 SDR
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB and 32MB VRAM GeForce 256 SDR to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB 's Advantages
Released 22 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock1740MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 32GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 1.144GB/s)
2048 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Jan 2022
Release Date
Oct 1999
GeForce 30
Generation
GeForce 256
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
AGP 4x
Clock Speeds
1545 MHz
Base Clock
-
1740 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
143 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
32MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
SDR
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
192.0GB/s
Bandwidth
1.144GB/s
Render Config
16
SM Count
-
2048
Shading Units
-
64
TMUs
4
32
ROPs
4
64
Tensor Cores
-
16
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
2 MB
L2 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
55.68 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
480.0 MPixel/s
111.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
480.0 MTexel/s
7.127 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
7.127 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
111.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
90W
TDP
Unknown
250 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x VGA
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GA107
GPU Name
NV10
GA107-140-A1
GPU Variant
-
Ampere
Architecture
Celsius
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
220 nm
8.7 billion
Transistors
0.017 billion
200 mm²
Die Size
139 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
7.0
4.6
OpenGL
1.2
3.0
OpenCL
N/A
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
8.6
CUDA
-
6.7
Shader Model
-
