NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 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 9 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 25% (1470MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (168.0GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (70W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960

2.413 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB +180%

6.774 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 960

2284

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB +111%

4832

GeForce GTX 960

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GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

Graphics Card

Jan 2015

Release Date

Feb 2024

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

1042 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

1470 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

96bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

168.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

18

-

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

2304

64

TMUs

72

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

72

-

RT Cores

18

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

37.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

47.04 GPixel/s

75.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

105.8 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

6.774 TFLOPS

2.413 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.774 TFLOPS

75.39 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

105.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

GA107

GM206-300-A1

GPU Variant

GA107-325-K2-A1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

8.7 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

70W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

5.2

CUDA

8.6

6.4

Shader Model

6.7

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