NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 260M

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile NVIDIA GeForce GTS 260M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 260M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1057MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

1952 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 260M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (38W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile +1539%

4.329 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 260M

0.264 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile

VS

GeForce GTS 260M

Graphics Card

May 2021

Release Date

Jun 2009

GeForce 30 Mobile

Generation

GeForce 200M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

712 MHz

Base Clock

-

1057 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

12

-

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

96

64

TMUs

32

ROPs

8

64

Tensor Cores

-

16

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

33.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

67.65 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.60 GTexel/s

4.329 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.329 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

264.0 GFLOPS

67.65 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

GT215

-

GPU Variant

N10E-GS

Ampere

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

Unknown

Transistors

0.727 billion

Unknown

Die Size

144 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

38W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

1.2

6.6

Shader Model

4.1

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