GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB vs GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB 's Advantages
Released 13 years and 2 months late
Boost Clock1777MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 896GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)
2344 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (130W vs 171W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB
+1597%
9098
GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2
536
Graphics Card
Jan 2022
Release Date
Nov 2008
GeForce 30
Generation
GeForce 200
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1552 MHz
Base Clock
-
1777 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
999 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
896MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
448bit
224.0GB/s
Bandwidth
111.9GB/s
Render Config
20
SM Count
27
2560
Shading Units
216
80
TMUs
72
32
ROPs
28
80
Tensor Cores
-
20
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
2 MB
L2 Cache
224 KB
Theoretical Performance
56.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
16.13 GPixel/s
142.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
41.47 GTexel/s
9.098 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
9.098 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
536.5 GFLOPS
142.2 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
67.07 GFLOPS
Board Design
130W
TDP
171W
300 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GA106
GPU Name
GT200B
GA106-150-KA-A1
GPU Variant
G200-103-B2
Ampere
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
55 nm
12 billion
Transistors
1.4 billion
276 mm²
Die Size
470 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
8.6
CUDA
1.3
6.6
Shader Model
4.0
