NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 250 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 RTX 3050 8 GB 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

2432 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (130W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTS 250

0.387 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +2250%

9.098 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 250

VS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

Graphics Card

Mar 2009

Release Date

Jan 2022

GeForce 200

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1552 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

16

SM Count

20

128

Shading Units

2560

64

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

80

-

RT Cores

20

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

64 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

11.23 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

56.86 GPixel/s

44.93 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

142.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

9.098 TFLOPS

387.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.098 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

142.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

130W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

G92B

GPU Name

GA106

G92-428-B1

GPU Variant

GA106-150-KA-A1

Tesla

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

55 nm

Process Size

8 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

12 billion

260 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

1.1

CUDA

8.6

4.0

Shader Model

6.6

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