NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 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 5 months late

Boost Clock1470MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 896GB)

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

2088 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (70W vs 182W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB +1163%

6.774 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

0.536 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

VS

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

Graphics Card

Feb 2024

Release Date

Sep 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

27

2304

Shading Units

216

72

TMUs

72

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

41.47 GTexel/s

6.774 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.774 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

536.5 GFLOPS

105.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

67.07 GFLOPS

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 Processor

GA107

GPU Name

GT200

GA107-325-K2-A1

GPU Variant

G200-103-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

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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