NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 260M

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 6 GB NVIDIA GeForce GTS 260M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 6 GB and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 260M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 6 GB 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1492MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (168.0GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

2464 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 260M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (38W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 6 GB +2793%

7.639 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 260M

0.264 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 6 GB

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GeForce GTS 260M

Graphics Card

Jul 2022

Release Date

Jun 2009

GeForce 30 Mobile

Generation

GeForce 200M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1237 MHz

Base Clock

-

1492 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

96bit

Memory Bus

128bit

168.0GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

20

SM Count

12

-

Compute Units

-

2560

Shading Units

96

80

TMUs

32

ROPs

8

80

Tensor Cores

-

20

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

47.74 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

119.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.60 GTexel/s

7.639 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.639 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

264.0 GFLOPS

119.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

GT215

-

GPU Variant

N10E-GS

Ampere

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

8.7 billion

Transistors

0.727 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

144 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

38W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

1.2

6.7

Shader Model

4.1

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