NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB 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

Boost Clock has increased by 8% (1777MHz vs 1650MHz)

384 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (115W vs 184W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB 's Advantages

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107 +26%

9.098 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

7.181 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107

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GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Dec 2021

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1552 MHz

Base Clock

1470 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

1650 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

20

SM Count

34

-

Compute Units

-

2560

Shading Units

2176

80

TMUs

136

32

ROPs

48

80

Tensor Cores

272

20

RT Cores

34

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

56.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

79.20 GPixel/s

142.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

224.4 GTexel/s

9.098 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

14.36 TFLOPS

9.098 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.181 TFLOPS

142.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

224.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

TU106

GA107-150-A1

GPU Variant

TU106-300-KA-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Turing

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

12 nm

Unknown

Transistors

10.8 billion

Unknown

Die Size

445 mm²

Board Design

115W

TDP

184W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

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

7.5

6.6

Shader Model

6.6

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