NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 OEM Rebrand
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107 and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GT 640 OEM Rebrand to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107 's Advantages
Released 9 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock1777MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 1536GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)
2416 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 OEM Rebrand 's Advantages
Lower TDP (75W vs 115W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107
+2092%
9.098 TFLOPS
GeForce GT 640 OEM Rebrand
0.415 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2022
Release Date
Apr 2012
GeForce 30
Generation
GeForce 600
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1552 MHz
Base Clock
-
1777 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
1536MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
DDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
192bit
224.0GB/s
Bandwidth
38.40GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
20
SM Count
3
2560
Shading Units
144
80
TMUs
24
32
ROPs
24
80
Tensor Cores
-
20
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
384 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
56.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.320 GPixel/s
142.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
17.28 GTexel/s
9.098 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
9.098 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
414.7 GFLOPS
142.2 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
34.56 GFLOPS
Board Design
115W
TDP
75W
300 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GA107
GPU Name
GF116
GA107-150-A1
GPU Variant
GF116-150-A1
Ampere
Architecture
Fermi 2.0
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
40 nm
Unknown
Transistors
1.17 billion
Unknown
Die Size
238 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
6.6
Shader Model
5.1
