NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 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 13 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1740MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

1832 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (90W vs 182W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +1229%

7.127 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

0.536 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

VS

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Sep 2008

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

999 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

896MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

448bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

111.9GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

27

-

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

216

64

TMUs

72

32

ROPs

28

64

Tensor Cores

-

16

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

224 KB

Theoretical Performance

55.68 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.13 GPixel/s

111.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

41.47 GTexel/s

7.127 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.127 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

536.5 GFLOPS

111.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

67.07 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

GT200

GA107-140-A1

GPU Variant

G200-103-A2

Ampere

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

65 nm

8.7 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

576 mm²

Board Design

90W

TDP

182W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

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

1.3

6.7

Shader Model

4.0

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