NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 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 1 years and 4 months late

Lower TDP (70W vs 195W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 21% (1777MHz vs 1470MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 168.0GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

6.774 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 +88%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

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GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

Graphics Card

Feb 2024

Release Date

Oct 2022

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1042 MHz

Base Clock

1320 MHz

1470 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

96bit

Memory Bus

128bit

168.0GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

18

SM Count

28

2304

Shading Units

3584

72

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

64

72

Tensor Cores

112

18

RT Cores

28

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

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Theoretical Performance

47.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

113.7 GPixel/s

105.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

6.774 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

6.774 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

105.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

70W

TDP

195W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

GA104

GA107-325-K2-A1

GPU Variant

GA104

Ampere

Architecture

Ampere

Samsung

Foundry

Samsung

8 nm

Process Size

8 nm

8.7 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

8.6

6.7

Shader Model

6.7

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