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

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB 's Advantages

Released 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 1% (1777MHz vs 1755MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (130W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +57%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

8.087 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +74%

2499

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

1434

OctaneBench

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +57%

282

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

179

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +125%

45

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

20

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +70%

85

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

50

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +88%

132

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

70

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +82%

53

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

29

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +50%

98

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

65

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +70%

140

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

82

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

VS

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Jan 2022

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

1515 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

1755 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

28

SM Count

18

3584

Shading Units

2304

112

TMUs

72

48

ROPs

32

112

Tensor Cores

72

28

RT Cores

18

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

56.16 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

126.4 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

8.087 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.087 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

126.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

170W

TDP

130W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

GA106

GA106-302-A1

GPU Variant

GA106-150-KA-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Ampere

Samsung

Foundry

Samsung

8 nm

Process Size

8 nm

12 billion

Transistors

12 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

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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