NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107 's Advantages

Lower TDP (115W vs 170W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB 's Advantages

Released 9 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107

9.098 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +40%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Oct 2022

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1552 MHz

Base Clock

1320 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

20

SM Count

28

-

Compute Units

-

2560

Shading Units

3584

80

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

48

80

Tensor Cores

112

20

RT Cores

28

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

56.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.30 GPixel/s

142.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

9.098 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

9.098 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

142.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

GA106

GA107-150-A1

GPU Variant

GA106-302-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Ampere

Samsung

Foundry

Samsung

8 nm

Process Size

8 nm

Unknown

Transistors

12 billion

Unknown

Die Size

276 mm²

Board Design

115W

TDP

170W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

8.6

6.6

Shader Model

6.6

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