GeForce GTX 960 OEM and GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 960 OEM
GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
GM206
GA107
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2015
July 2022
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Boost clock speed
1201 MHz
990 MHz
Core clock speed
924 MHz
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Floating-point performance
2,460 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
2,940 million
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Pipelines / CUDA cores
1024
2048
Power consumption (TDP)
-
75 Watt
Texture fill rate
76.86
63.36
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
6 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
96 Bit
Memory clock speed
7012 MHz
12 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
112.2 GB/s
144.0 GB/s
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
5.2
8.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.6
Vulkan
1.1.126
1.3