NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 240 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 240 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 240 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 12 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 70.40GB/s)

2448 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 240 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 130W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +2406%

9.098 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 240 OEM

0.363 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

VS

GeForce GTS 240 OEM

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Jul 2009

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

1100 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

70.40GB/s

Render Config

-

20

SM Count

14

2560

Shading Units

112

80

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

16

80

Tensor Cores

-

20

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

56.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.80 GPixel/s

142.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.80 GTexel/s

9.098 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

9.098 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

362.9 GFLOPS

142.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

130W

TDP

120W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

G92B

GA106-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

G92-240-B1

Ampere

Architecture

Tesla

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

55 nm

12 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

260 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

1.1

6.6

Shader Model

4.0

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