GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB vs GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB Advantages
Released 10 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock1777MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)
2512 additional rendering cores
GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1 Advantages
Lower TDP (29W vs 130W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB
+5732%
9098
GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1
156
Graphics Card
Jan 2022
Release Date
Apr 2011
GeForce 30
Generation
GeForce 500
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x1
Clock Speeds
1552 MHz
Base Clock
-
1777 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
DDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
224.0GB/s
Bandwidth
14.40GB/s
Render Config
20
SM Count
1
2560
Shading Units
48
80
TMUs
8
32
ROPs
4
80
Tensor Cores
-
20
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
128 KB
Theoretical Performance
56.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
1.620 GPixel/s
142.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
6.480 GTexel/s
9.098 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
9.098 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
155.5 GFLOPS
142.2 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
12.96 GFLOPS
Board Design
130W
TDP
29W
300 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GA106
GPU Name
GF119
GA106-150-KA-A1
GPU Variant
-
Ampere
Architecture
Fermi 2.0
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
40 nm
12 billion
Transistors
0.292 billion
276 mm²
Die Size
79 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
8.6
CUDA
2.1
6.6
Shader Model
5.1
