GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB vs GeForce GTX 260 OEM
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB and 1792MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 OEM 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 12 years and 1 months late
Boost Clock1740MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 1792GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 112.9GB/s)
1856 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (90W vs 150W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB
+1621%
7127
GeForce GTX 260 OEM
414
Graphics Card
Jan 2022
Release Date
Dec 2009
GeForce 30
Generation
GeForce 200
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1545 MHz
Base Clock
-
1740 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
1008 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
1792MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
448bit
192.0GB/s
Bandwidth
112.9GB/s
Render Config
16
SM Count
24
2048
Shading Units
192
64
TMUs
64
32
ROPs
28
64
Tensor Cores
-
16
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
2 MB
L2 Cache
224 KB
Theoretical Performance
55.68 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
14.50 GPixel/s
111.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
33.15 GTexel/s
7.127 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
7.127 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
414.7 GFLOPS
111.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
51.84 GFLOPS
Board Design
90W
TDP
150W
250 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GA107
GPU Name
GT200
GA107-140-A1
GPU Variant
G200-101-A2
Ampere
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
65 nm
8.7 billion
Transistors
1.4 billion
200 mm²
Die Size
576 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
8.6
CUDA
1.3
6.7
Shader Model
4.0
