GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB vs GeForce GTX 590
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 590 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 10 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock1740MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 1536GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 164.0GB/s)
1536 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (90W vs 365W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB
+472%
7127
GeForce GTX 590
1244
Graphics Card
Jan 2022
Release Date
Mar 2011
GeForce 30
Generation
GeForce 500
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
854 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
1536MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
384bit
192.0GB/s
Bandwidth
164.0GB/s
Render Config
16
SM Count
16
2048
Shading Units
512
64
TMUs
64
32
ROPs
48
64
Tensor Cores
-
16
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
768 KB
Theoretical Performance
55.68 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
19.46 GPixel/s
111.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
38.91 GTexel/s
7.127 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
7.127 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1244 GFLOPS
111.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
155.5 GFLOPS
Board Design
90W
TDP
365W
250 W
Suggested PSU
750 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
3x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GA107
GPU Name
GF110
GA107-140-A1
GPU Variant
GF110-351-A1
Ampere
Architecture
Fermi 2.0
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
40 nm
8.7 billion
Transistors
3 billion
200 mm²
Die Size
520 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
8.6
CUDA
2.0
6.7
Shader Model
5.1
