NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 OEM NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520 OEM and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (29W vs 130W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1755MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

2256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 520 OEM

0.135 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM +5890%

8.087 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520 OEM

VS

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

Jan 2022

GeForce 500

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1515 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1755 MHz

500 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

8.000GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

2

SM Count

18

-

Compute Units

-

48

Shading Units

2304

8

TMUs

72

4

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

72

-

RT Cores

18

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

128 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

2.356 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

56.16 GPixel/s

4.712 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

126.4 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

8.087 TFLOPS

134.6 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.087 TFLOPS

11.22 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

126.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GF119

GPU Name

GA106

GF119 B1

GPU Variant

GA106-150-KA-A1

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

40 nm

Process Size

8 nm

0.292 billion

Transistors

12 billion

79 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Board Design

29W

TDP

130W

200 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

2.1

CUDA

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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