NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

2512 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (29W vs 130W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +6639%

9.098 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520 OEM

0.135 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

VS

GeForce GT 520 OEM

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Aug 2012

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 500

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

500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

8.000GB/s

Render Config

-

20

SM Count

2

2560

Shading Units

48

80

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

80

Tensor Cores

-

20

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

56.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.356 GPixel/s

142.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.712 GTexel/s

9.098 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

9.098 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

134.6 GFLOPS

142.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

11.22 GFLOPS

Board Design

130W

TDP

29W

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

GF119

GA106-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

GF119 B1

Ampere

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

12 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

79 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

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