NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCI

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCI

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520 PCI to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1470MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (168.0GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

2256 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCI 's Advantages

Lower TDP (29W vs 70W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB +4242%

6.774 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520 PCI

0.156 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

VS

GeForce GT 520 PCI

Graphics Card

Feb 2024

Release Date

Apr 2011

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCI

Clock Speeds

1042 MHz

Base Clock

-

1470 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

DDR3

96bit

Memory Bus

64bit

168.0GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

-

18

SM Count

1

2304

Shading Units

48

72

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

72

Tensor Cores

-

18

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

47.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.620 GPixel/s

105.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.480 GTexel/s

6.774 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.774 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

155.5 GFLOPS

105.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

12.96 GFLOPS

Board Design

70W

TDP

29W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

GF119

GA107-325-K2-A1

GPU Variant

GF119-300-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

8.7 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

79 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

2.1

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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