NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2022
May 2012
Generation
GeForce 30
GeForce 600
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1552 MHz
915 MHz
Boost Clock
1777 MHz
1019 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
1502 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
256bit
Bandwidth
224.0GB/s
192.3GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
20
-
Shading Units
2560
1536
TMUs
80
128
ROPs
32
32
Tensor Cores
80
-
RT Cores
20
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per SMX)
L2 Cache
2 MB
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
56.86 GPixel/s
32.61 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
142.2 GTexel/s
130.4 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
9.098 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
9.098 TFLOPS
3.130 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
142.2 GFLOPS
130.4 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA106
GK104
GPU Variant
GA106-150-KA-A1
GK104-355-A2
Architecture
Ampere
Kepler
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
28 nm
Transistors
12 billion
3.54 billion
Die Size
276 mm²
294 mm²
Board Design
TDP
130W
300W
Suggested PSU
300 W
700 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
3x DVI1x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
2x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.1
CUDA
8.6
3.0
Shader Model
6.6
5.1