NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 450 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 11 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 57.73GB/s)

2368 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 's Advantages

Lower TDP (106W vs 130W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +1413%

9.098 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 450

0.601 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

VS

GeForce GTS 450

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Sep 2010

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 400

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

902 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

57.73GB/s

Render Config

-

20

SM Count

4

2560

Shading Units

192

80

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

80

Tensor Cores

-

20

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

56.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.264 GPixel/s

142.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

25.06 GTexel/s

9.098 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

9.098 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

601.3 GFLOPS

142.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

50.11 GFLOPS

Board Design

130W

TDP

106W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

GF106

GA106-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

GF106-250-KA-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Fermi

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

12 billion

Transistors

1.17 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

238 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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