GeForce 7950 GT and GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107 - video card comparison

GeForce 7950 GT

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107

Architecture

Curie (2003−2013)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

G71

GA107

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

August 2006

December 2022

Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x8

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

Boost clock speed

1777 MHz

Core clock speed

550 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

90 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

278 million

8,700 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2560

Power consumption (TDP)

65 Watt

115 Watt

Texture fill rate

13.20

142.2

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

512 MB

8 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

1400 MHz

14 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

44.8 GB/s

224.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 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

6.7

Vulkan

N/A

1.3