NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1740MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

1856 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (90W vs 182W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +1394%

7.127 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

0.477 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

VS

GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Jul 2008

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1545 MHz

Base Clock

-

1740 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

999 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

896MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

448bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

111.9GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

24

-

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

192

64

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

28

64

Tensor Cores

-

16

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

224 KB

Theoretical Performance

55.68 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.13 GPixel/s

111.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

36.86 GTexel/s

7.127 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.127 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

476.9 GFLOPS

111.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

59.62 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

GT200B

GA107-140-A1

GPU Variant

G200-103-B3

Ampere

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

55 nm

8.7 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

470 mm²

Board Design

90W

TDP

182W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

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

6.7

Shader Model

4.0

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