NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 OEM 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 6 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 48% (1777MHz vs 1201MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107 +269%

9.098 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

2.46 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107

VS

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Nov 2015

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1552 MHz

Base Clock

1176 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

1201 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

112.2GB/s

Render Config

-

20

SM Count

-

2560

Shading Units

1024

80

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

32

80

Tensor Cores

-

20

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

56.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.43 GPixel/s

142.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

76.86 GTexel/s

9.098 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

9.098 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.460 TFLOPS

142.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

76.86 GFLOPS

Board Design

115W

TDP

Unknown

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

GM206

GA107-150-A1

GPU Variant

GTX 960 OEM

Ampere

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

Unknown

Transistors

2.94 billion

Unknown

Die Size

228 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

5.2

6.6

Shader Model

6.7

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