NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 OEM 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 3050 8 GB GA107 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 48% (1777MHz vs 1201MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

2.46 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107 +269%

9.098 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

VS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107

Graphics Card

Nov 2015

Release Date

Jan 2022

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1176 MHz

Base Clock

1552 MHz

1201 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

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SM Count

20

-

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

2560

64

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

80

-

RT Cores

20

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

38.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

56.86 GPixel/s

76.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

142.2 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

9.098 TFLOPS

2.460 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.098 TFLOPS

76.86 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

142.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

GA107

GTX 960 OEM

GPU Variant

GA107-150-A1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

Unknown

228 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

115W

200 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

5.2

CUDA

8.6

6.7

Shader Model

6.6

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