NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 240

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB NVIDIA GeForce GT 240

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 240 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 2 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 54.40GB/s)

2464 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 's Advantages

Lower TDP (69W vs 130W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +3440%

9.098 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 240

0.257 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

VS

GeForce GT 240

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Nov 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

850 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

54.40GB/s

Render Config

20

SM Count

12

-

Compute Units

-

2560

Shading Units

96

80

TMUs

32

ROPs

8

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

4.400 GPixel/s

142.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.60 GTexel/s

9.098 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

9.098 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

257.3 GFLOPS

142.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

GT215

GA106-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

GT215-450-A2

Ampere

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

12 billion

Transistors

0.727 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

144 mm²

Board Design

130W

TDP

69W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1x VGA

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

1.2

6.6

Shader Model

4.1

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