NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 590 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 10 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1740MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1536GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 164.0GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (90W vs 365W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +472%

7.127 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 590

1.244 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

VS

GeForce GTX 590

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Mar 2011

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 500

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

854 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

164.0GB/s

Render Config

-

16

SM Count

16

2048

Shading Units

512

64

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

48

64

Tensor Cores

-

16

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

55.68 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.46 GPixel/s

111.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.91 GTexel/s

7.127 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.127 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1244 GFLOPS

111.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

155.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

90W

TDP

365W

250 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

GF110

GA107-140-A1

GPU Variant

GF110-351-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

8.7 billion

Transistors

3 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

2.0

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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