GeForce 7600 GT Mac Edition and GeForce RTX 3050 OEM - video card comparison

GeForce 7600 GT Mac Edition

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

Architecture

Curie (2003−2013)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

G73B

GA106

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

September 2006

January 2022

Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x8

Supplementary power connectors

None

1x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

1755 MHz

Core clock speed

560 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

80 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

177 million

12,000 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2560

Power consumption (TDP)

40 Watt

130 Watt

Texture fill rate

6.720

140.4

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

256 MB

8 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

1400 MBps

14 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

22.4 GB/s

224.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

2x DVI

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