NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 640

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 640 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 's Advantages

Lower TDP (65W vs 130W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 28.51GB/s)

2176 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 640

0.693 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +1212%

9.098 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 640

VS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Jan 2022

GeForce 600

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1552 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

891 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

28.51GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

20

384

Shading Units

2560

32

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

80

-

RT Cores

20

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

7.216 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

56.86 GPixel/s

28.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

142.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

9.098 TFLOPS

692.7 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.098 TFLOPS

28.86 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

142.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

65W

TDP

130W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GK107

GPU Name

GA106

GK107-300-A2

GPU Variant

GA106-150-KA-A1

Kepler

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

1.27 billion

Transistors

12 billion

118 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.1

Vulkan

1.3

3.0

CUDA

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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