NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 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 7 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 48% (1740MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (90W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +195%

7.127 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960

2.413 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +708%

1528

GeForce GTX 960

189

OctaneBench

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +280%

175

GeForce GTX 960

46

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +200%

30

GeForce GTX 960

10

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +140%

60

GeForce GTX 960

25

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +142%

85

GeForce GTX 960

35

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +57%

110

GeForce GTX 960

70

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

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GeForce GTX 960

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Jan 2015

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1545 MHz

Base Clock

1127 MHz

1740 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

112.2GB/s

Render Config

-

16

SM Count

-

2048

Shading Units

1024

64

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

32

64

Tensor Cores

-

16

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

55.68 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

37.70 GPixel/s

111.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

75.39 GTexel/s

7.127 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.127 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.413 TFLOPS

111.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.39 GFLOPS

Board Design

90W

TDP

120W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

GM206

GA107-140-A1

GPU Variant

GM206-300-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

8.7 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

228 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

5.2

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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