GeForce 6500 and GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 6500 vs GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB
GeForce 6500
39
GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB
12990
GeForce 6500
GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB
Architecture
Curie (2003−2013)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
NV44 A2
GA106
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2005
January 2022
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
-
1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
-
1777 MHz
Core clock speed
400 MHz
-
Manufacturing process technology
110 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
75 million
12,000 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
-
2560
Power consumption (TDP)
-
130 Watt
Texture fill rate
1.600
142.2
Memory type
DDR2
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
128 MB
8 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
532 MHz
14 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
8.512 GB/s
224.0 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
-
8.6
OpenCL
N/A
3.0
OpenGL
2.1
4.6
Shader Model
3.0
6.6
Vulkan
N/A
1.3