NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 230

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB NVIDIA GeForce GT 230

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 230 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

2512 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 130W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +5732%

9.098 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 230

0.156 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

VS

GeForce GT 230

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Oct 2009

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1552 MHz

Base Clock

-

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

20

SM Count

6

-

Compute Units

-

2560

Shading Units

48

80

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

16

80

Tensor Cores

-

20

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

56.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.40 GPixel/s

142.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.60 GTexel/s

9.098 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

9.098 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

156.0 GFLOPS

142.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

G94B

GA106-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

G94-300-B1

Ampere

Architecture

Tesla

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

55 nm

12 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

196 mm²

Board Design

130W

TDP

75W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

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

1.1

6.6

Shader Model

4.0

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