NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 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 13 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

2368 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (130W vs 182W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260

0.477 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +1807%

9.098 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

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GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

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

999 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

448bit

Memory Bus

128bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

24

SM Count

20

192

Shading Units

2560

64

TMUs

80

28

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

80

-

RT Cores

20

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

224 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

56.86 GPixel/s

36.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

142.2 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

9.098 TFLOPS

476.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.098 TFLOPS

59.62 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

142.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

182W

TDP

130W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

GA106

G200-100-A2

GPU Variant

GA106-150-KA-A1

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

65 nm

Process Size

8 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

12 billion

576 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

CUDA

8.6

4.0

Shader Model

6.6

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