NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB vs NVIDIA PG506 242

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB NVIDIA PG506 242

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB and 24GB VRAM PG506 242 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 2 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 2% (1470MHz vs 1440MHz)

Lower TDP (70W vs 165W)

NVIDIA PG506 242 's Advantages

More VRAM (24GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 168.0GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

6.774 TFLOPS

PG506 242 +52%

10.32 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

VS

PG506 242

Graphics Card

Feb 2024

Release Date

Apr 2021

GeForce 30

Generation

Tesla

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1042 MHz

Base Clock

930 MHz

1470 MHz

Boost Clock

1440 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1215 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

HBM2

96bit

Memory Bus

3072bit

168.0GB/s

Bandwidth

933.1GB/s

Render Config

18

SM Count

56

-

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

3584

72

TMUs

224

32

ROPs

96

72

Tensor Cores

224

18

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

192 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

24 MB

Theoretical Performance

47.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

138.2 GPixel/s

105.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

322.6 GTexel/s

6.774 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

10.32 TFLOPS

6.774 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.32 TFLOPS

105.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

5.161 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

GA100

GA107-325-K2-A1

GPU Variant

-

Ampere

Architecture

Ampere

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

7 nm

8.7 billion

Transistors

54.2 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

826 mm²

Board Design

70W

TDP

165W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

N/A

4.6

OpenGL

N/A

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

8.0

6.7

Shader Model

N/A

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