NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 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

Lower TDP (130W vs 170W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 's Advantages

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

9.098 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 +40%

12.74 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

6254

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 +43%

8988

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Sep 2021

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1552 MHz

Base Clock

1320 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

20

SM Count

28

-

Compute Units

-

2560

Shading Units

3584

80

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

48

80

Tensor Cores

112

20

RT Cores

28

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

56.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.30 GPixel/s

142.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

9.098 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

9.098 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

142.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

GA104

GA106-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

GA104-150-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Ampere

Samsung

Foundry

Samsung

8 nm

Process Size

8 nm

12 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Board Design

130W

TDP

170W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-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

8.6

6.6

Shader Model

6.6

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