NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (177.4GB/s vs 168.0GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1470MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1GB)

1824 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (70W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 480

1.345 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB +403%

6.774 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480

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GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

Graphics Card

Mar 2010

Release Date

Feb 2024

GeForce 400

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1042 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1470 MHz

924 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

96bit

177.4GB/s

Bandwidth

168.0GB/s

Render Config

15

SM Count

18

-

Compute Units

-

480

Shading Units

2304

60

TMUs

72

48

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

72

-

RT Cores

18

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

21.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

47.04 GPixel/s

42.06 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

105.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

6.774 TFLOPS

1345 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.774 TFLOPS

168.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

105.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GF100

GPU Name

GA107

GF100-375-A3

GPU Variant

GA107-325-K2-A1

Fermi

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

40 nm

Process Size

8 nm

3.1 billion

Transistors

8.7 billion

529 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

70W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

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

2.0

CUDA

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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