NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 OEM 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 8 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 22% (1470MHz vs 1201MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (168.0GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB +175%

6.774 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

2.46 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

VS

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

Graphics Card

Feb 2024

Release Date

Nov 2015

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1042MHz

Base Clock

1176MHz

1470MHz

Boost Clock

1201MHz

1750MHz

Memory Clock

1753MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

96bit

Memory Bus

128bit

168.0 GB/s

Bandwidth

112.2 GB/s

Render Config

18

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

1024

72

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

32

72

Tensor Cores

-

18

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

2MB

L2 Cache

1024KB

Theoretical Performance

47.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.43 GPixel/s

105.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

76.86 GTexel/s

6.774 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.774 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.460 TFLOPS

105.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

76.86 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

GM206

GA107-325-K2-A1

GPU Variant

GTX 960 OEM

Ampere

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

8,700 million

Transistors

2,940 million

200mm²

Die Size

228mm²

Board Design

70W

TDP

Unknown

250W

Suggested PSU

200W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

5.2

6.7

Shader Model

6.7

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