NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 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 13 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1470MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1536GB)

1824 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (70W vs 250W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (177.4GB/s vs 168.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB +403%

6.774 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480

1.345 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

VS

GeForce GTX 480

Graphics Card

Feb 2024

Release Date

Mar 2010

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 400

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

924 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

96bit

Memory Bus

384bit

168.0GB/s

Bandwidth

177.4GB/s

Render Config

-

18

SM Count

15

2304

Shading Units

480

72

TMUs

60

32

ROPs

48

72

Tensor Cores

-

18

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

47.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.03 GPixel/s

105.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

42.06 GTexel/s

6.774 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.774 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1345 GFLOPS

105.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

168.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

70W

TDP

250W

250 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

GF100

GA107-325-K2-A1

GPU Variant

GF100-375-A3

Ampere

Architecture

Fermi

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

8.7 billion

Transistors

3.1 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

529 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

2.0

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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