NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 590 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB's Advantages

Released 12 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock 1470MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (168.0GB/s vs 164.0GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (70W vs 365W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB +444%

6.774 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 590

1.244 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

VS

GeForce GTX 590

Graphics Card

Feb 2024

Release Date

Mar 2011

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1042MHz

Base Clock

-

1470MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750MHz

Memory Clock

854MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

96bit

Memory Bus

384bit

168.0 GB/s

Bandwidth

164.0 GB/s

Render Config

18

SM Count

16

-

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

512

72

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

48

72

Tensor Cores

-

18

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

2MB

L2 Cache

768KB

Theoretical Performance

47.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.46 GPixel/s

105.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.91 GTexel/s

6.774 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.774 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1244 GFLOPS

105.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

155.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

GF110

GA107-325-K2-A1

GPU Variant

GF110-351-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

8,700 million

Transistors

3,000 million

200mm²

Die Size

520mm²

Board Design

70W

TDP

365W

250W

Suggested PSU

750W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort

None

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

2.0

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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