NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 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 RTX 3050 OEM 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1755MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 896GB)

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

2112 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (130W vs 182W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260

0.477 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM +1595%

8.087 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

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GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

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

1515 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1755 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

18

192

Shading Units

2304

64

TMUs

72

28

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

72

-

RT Cores

18

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

224 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

56.16 GPixel/s

36.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

126.4 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

8.087 TFLOPS

476.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.087 TFLOPS

59.62 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

126.4 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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