NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 520

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM NVIDIA GeForce GT 520

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 OEM and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1755MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

2256 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 's Advantages

Lower TDP (29W vs 130W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM +5083%

8.087 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520

0.156 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

VS

GeForce GT 520

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Apr 2011

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1515 MHz

Base Clock

-

1755 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

18

SM Count

1

-

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

48

72

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

72

Tensor Cores

-

18

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

56.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.620 GPixel/s

126.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.480 GTexel/s

8.087 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

8.087 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

155.5 GFLOPS

126.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

12.96 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

GF119

GA106-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

GF119-300-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

12 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

79 mm²

Board Design

130W

TDP

29W

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

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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