NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 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 15 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1470MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (168.0GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

2112 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (70W vs 182W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB +1320%

6.774 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

0.477 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

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GeForce GTX 260

Graphics Card

Feb 2024

Release Date

Jun 2008

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1042 MHz

Base Clock

-

1470 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

999 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

896MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

96bit

Memory Bus

448bit

168.0GB/s

Bandwidth

111.9GB/s

Render Config

18

SM Count

24

-

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

192

72

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

28

72

Tensor Cores

-

18

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

224 KB

Theoretical Performance

47.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.13 GPixel/s

105.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

36.86 GTexel/s

6.774 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.774 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

476.9 GFLOPS

105.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

59.62 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

GT200

GA107-325-K2-A1

GPU Variant

G200-100-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

70W

TDP

182W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

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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