NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 590 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 10 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1536GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 164.0GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (130W vs 365W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 590

1.244 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +631%

9.098 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 590

VS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

Graphics Card

Mar 2011

Release Date

Jan 2022

GeForce 500

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

-

16

SM Count

20

512

Shading Units

2560

64

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

19.46 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

56.86 GPixel/s

38.91 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

142.2 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

9.098 TFLOPS

1244 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.098 TFLOPS

155.5 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

GF110

GPU Name

GA106

GF110-351-A1

GPU Variant

GA106-150-KA-A1

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

40 nm

Process Size

8 nm

3 billion

Transistors

12 billion

520 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

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