NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB 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 2 years and 1 months late

Lower TDP (70W vs 130W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 21% (1777MHz vs 1470MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 168.0GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

6.774 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +34%

9.098 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

VS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

Graphics Card

Feb 2024

Release Date

Jan 2022

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1042MHz

Base Clock

1552MHz

1470MHz

Boost Clock

1777MHz

1750MHz

Memory Clock

1750MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

96bit

Memory Bus

128bit

168.0 GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0 GB/s

Render Config

18

SM Count

20

-

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

2560

72

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

72

Tensor Cores

80

18

RT Cores

20

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2MB

L2 Cache

2MB

Theoretical Performance

47.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

56.86 GPixel/s

105.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

142.2 GTexel/s

6.774 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

9.098 TFLOPS

6.774 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.098 TFLOPS

105.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

142.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

GA106

GA107-325-K2-A1

GPU Variant

GA106-150-KA-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Ampere

Samsung

Foundry

Samsung

8 nm

Process Size

8 nm

8,700 million

Transistors

12,000 million

200mm²

Die Size

276mm²

Board Design

70W

TDP

130W

250W

Suggested PSU

300W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

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

6.7

Shader Model

6.6

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