NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 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 13 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 141.7GB/s)

2320 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (115W vs 236W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107 +1362%

9.098 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280

0.622 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107

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GeForce GTX 280

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Jun 2008

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 200

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

1107 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

512bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

141.7GB/s

Render Config

-

20

SM Count

30

2560

Shading Units

240

80

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

80

Tensor Cores

-

20

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

56.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.26 GPixel/s

142.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

48.16 GTexel/s

9.098 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

9.098 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

622.1 GFLOPS

142.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

77.76 GFLOPS

Board Design

115W

TDP

236W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

GT200

GA107-150-A1

GPU Variant

G200-300-A2

Ampere

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

65 nm

Unknown

Transistors

1.4 billion

Unknown

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

6.6

Shader Model

4.0

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