NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 230

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 230 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1740MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

2000 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 90W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +4468%

7.127 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 230

0.156 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

VS

GeForce GT 230

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Oct 2009

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1545 MHz

Base Clock

-

1740 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

-

16

SM Count

6

2048

Shading Units

48

64

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

16

64

Tensor Cores

-

16

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

55.68 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.40 GPixel/s

111.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.60 GTexel/s

7.127 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.127 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

156.0 GFLOPS

111.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

90W

TDP

75W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

G94B

GA107-140-A1

GPU Variant

G94-300-B1

Ampere

Architecture

Tesla

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

55 nm

8.7 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

196 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

1.1

6.7

Shader Model

4.0

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