NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 Rev. 2

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 Rev. 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 640 Rev. 2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1470MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (168.0GB/s vs 40.06GB/s)

1920 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 Rev. 2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (49W vs 70W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB +743%

6.774 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 640 Rev. 2

0.803 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

VS

GeForce GT 640 Rev. 2

Graphics Card

Feb 2024

Release Date

May 2013

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1042 MHz

Base Clock

-

1470 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1252 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

96bit

Memory Bus

64bit

168.0GB/s

Bandwidth

40.06GB/s

Render Config

18

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

384

72

TMUs

32

ROPs

8

72

Tensor Cores

-

18

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

47.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.368 GPixel/s

105.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.47 GTexel/s

6.774 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.774 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

803.3 GFLOPS

105.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

33.47 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

GK208

GA107-325-K2-A1

GPU Variant

GK208-400-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Kepler 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

8.7 billion

Transistors

1.02 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

87 mm²

Board Design

70W

TDP

49W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.1

8.6

CUDA

3.5

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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