NVIDIA GeForce GTX 490 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 490 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
Boost Clock1777MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 1536GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 164.0GB/s)
2080 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (130W vs 365W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 490
1.166 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB
+680%
9.098 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Unknown
Release Date
Jan 2022
GeForce 400
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
854 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
1536MB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
384bit
Memory Bus
128bit
164.0GB/s
Bandwidth
224.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
15
SM Count
20
480
Shading Units
2560
60
TMUs
80
48
ROPs
32
-
Tensor Cores
80
-
RT Cores
20
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
768 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
18.24 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
56.86 GPixel/s
36.48 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
142.2 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
9.098 TFLOPS
1166 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
9.098 TFLOPS
145.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
142.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
365W
TDP
130W
750 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
3x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GF100
GPU Name
GA106
GF100-375-A3
GPU Variant
GA106-150-KA-A1
Fermi
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
40 nm
Process Size
8 nm
3.1 billion
Transistors
12 billion
529 mm²
Die Size
276 mm²
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
6.6
