GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB Max-Q and GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB Max-Q

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

Architecture

Pascal (2016−2021)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

GP107

GA106

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

February 2019

January 2022

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x8

Supplementary power connectors

None

1x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

1442 MHz

1777 MHz

Core clock speed

1366 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

3,300 million

12,000 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

768

2560

Power consumption (TDP)

75 Watt

130 Watt

Texture fill rate

69.22

142.2

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

3 GB

8 GB

Memory bus width

96 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

7008 MHz

14 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

84.1 GB/s

224.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

No outputs

1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

HDMI

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

6.1

8.6

OpenCL

1.2

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

6.6

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.3