NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 650 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 9 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1740MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 80.00GB/s)

1664 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 's Advantages

Lower TDP (65W vs 90W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +777%

7.127 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 650

0.812 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +3817%

1841

GeForce GTX 650

47

OctaneBench

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +1292%

181

GeForce GTX 650

13

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

VS

GeForce GTX 650

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Sep 2012

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1545 MHz

Base Clock

-

1740 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

80.00GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

384

64

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

64

Tensor Cores

-

16

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

55.68 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.464 GPixel/s

111.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.86 GTexel/s

7.127 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.127 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

812.5 GFLOPS

111.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

33.86 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

GK107

GA107-140-A1

GPU Variant

GK107-450-A2

Ampere

Architecture

Kepler

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

8.7 billion

Transistors

1.27 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

118 mm²

Board Design

90W

TDP

65W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.1

8.6

CUDA

3.0

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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