GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB vs GeForce GTX 650
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 650 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 9 years and 4 months late
Boost Clock1777MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 80.00GB/s)
2176 additional rendering cores
GeForce GTX 650 's Advantages
Lower TDP (65W vs 130W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB
+1020%
9098
GeForce GTX 650
812
Graphics Card
Jan 2022
Release Date
Sep 2012
GeForce 30
Generation
GeForce 600
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1552 MHz
Base Clock
-
1777 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
224.0GB/s
Bandwidth
80.00GB/s
Render Config
20
SM Count
-
2560
Shading Units
384
80
TMUs
32
32
ROPs
16
80
Tensor Cores
-
20
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
2 MB
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
56.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
8.464 GPixel/s
142.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
33.86 GTexel/s
9.098 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
9.098 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
812.5 GFLOPS
142.2 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
33.86 GFLOPS
Board Design
130W
TDP
65W
300 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.4a
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GA106
GPU Name
GK107
GA106-150-KA-A1
GPU Variant
GK107-450-A2
Ampere
Architecture
Kepler
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
28 nm
12 billion
Transistors
1.27 billion
276 mm²
Die Size
118 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.1
8.6
CUDA
3.0
6.6
Shader Model
5.1
