NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 130W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM 's Advantages

Released 7 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 49% (1755MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

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

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960

2.413 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM +235%

8.087 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce GTX 960

192

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM +715%

1566

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 960

10

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM +100%

20

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 960

25

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM +100%

50

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 960

35

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM +100%

70

GeForce GTX 960

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GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

Graphics Card

Jan 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

1127 MHz

Base Clock

1515 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

1755 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

18

-

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

2304

64

TMUs

72

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

72

-

RT Cores

18

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

37.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

56.16 GPixel/s

75.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

126.4 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

8.087 TFLOPS

2.413 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.087 TFLOPS

75.39 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

126.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

GA106

GM206-300-A1

GPU Variant

GA106-150-KA-A1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

12 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

130W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

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

6.4

Shader Model

6.6

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