NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB and 1792MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 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 1 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 112.9GB/s)

2368 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (130W vs 182W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +2092%

9.098 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 OEM

0.415 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

VS

GeForce GTX 260 OEM

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Dec 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

1008 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1792MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

448bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

112.9GB/s

Render Config

20

SM Count

24

-

Compute Units

-

2560

Shading Units

192

80

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

28

80

Tensor Cores

-

20

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

224 KB

Theoretical Performance

56.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.50 GPixel/s

142.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.15 GTexel/s

9.098 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

9.098 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

414.7 GFLOPS

142.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

51.84 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

GT200B

GA106-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

G200-103-B2

Ampere

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

55 nm

12 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

470 mm²

Board Design

130W

TDP

182W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

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

1.3

6.6

Shader Model

4.0

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