NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 590 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 RTX 3050 6 GB 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1470MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1536GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (168.0GB/s vs 164.0GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (70W vs 365W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 590

1.244 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB +444%

6.774 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 590

VS

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

Graphics Card

Mar 2011

Release Date

Feb 2024

GeForce 500

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

854 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

96bit

164.0GB/s

Bandwidth

168.0GB/s

Render Config

-

16

SM Count

18

512

Shading Units

2304

64

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

19.46 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

47.04 GPixel/s

38.91 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

105.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

6.774 TFLOPS

1244 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.774 TFLOPS

155.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

105.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

365W

TDP

70W

750 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF110

GPU Name

GA107

GF110-351-A1

GPU Variant

GA107-325-K2-A1

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

40 nm

Process Size

8 nm

3 billion

Transistors

8.7 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

200 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

6.7

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