NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107 's Advantages

Released 1 years late

Lower TDP (115W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 +40%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107

9.098 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060

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GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

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

1552 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

20

-

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

2560

112

TMUs

80

48

ROPs

32

112

Tensor Cores

80

28

RT Cores

20

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

56.86 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

142.2 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

9.098 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.098 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

142.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

GA107

GA106-300-A1

GPU Variant

GA107-150-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Ampere

Samsung

Foundry

Samsung

8 nm

Process Size

8 nm

12 billion

Transistors

Unknown

276 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Board Design

170W

TDP

115W

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 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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