NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 OEM and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM 's Advantages

Released 7 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 49% (1755MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 130W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM +235%

8.087 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960

2.413 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM +715%

1566

GeForce GTX 960

192

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM +100%

20

GeForce GTX 960

10

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM +100%

50

GeForce GTX 960

25

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM +100%

70

GeForce GTX 960

35

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

VS

GeForce GTX 960

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Jan 2015

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1515 MHz

Base Clock

1127 MHz

1755 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

112.2GB/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)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

56.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

37.70 GPixel/s

126.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

75.39 GTexel/s

8.087 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

8.087 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.413 TFLOPS

126.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.39 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

GM206

GA106-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

GM206-300-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

228 mm²

Board Design

130W

TDP

120W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

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

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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