NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 3

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 3

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 3 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 11 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1470MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (168.0GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

2160 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (70W vs 106W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB +1401%

6.774 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 3

0.451 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

VS

GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 3

Graphics Card

Feb 2024

Release Date

Jul 2012

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1042 MHz

Base Clock

-

1470 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

DDR3

96bit

Memory Bus

128bit

168.0GB/s

Bandwidth

22.40GB/s

Render Config

18

SM Count

3

-

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

144

72

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

16

72

Tensor Cores

-

18

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

47.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.698 GPixel/s

105.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

18.79 GTexel/s

6.774 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.774 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

451.0 GFLOPS

105.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

37.58 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

GF116

GA107-325-K2-A1

GPU Variant

GF116-200-KA-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

8.7 billion

Transistors

1.17 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

238 mm²

Board Design

70W

TDP

106W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

None

Power Connectors

-

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

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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