Quadro FX 330 and GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB - video card comparison

Quadro FX 330

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

Architecture

Rankine (2003−2005)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

NV37

GA106

Market segment

Workstation

Desktop

Release date

June 2004

January 2022

Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x8

Supplementary power connectors

None

1x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

1777 MHz

Core clock speed

250 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

150 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

45 million

12,000 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2560

Power consumption (TDP)

21 Watt

130 Watt

Texture fill rate

1.000

142.2

Memory type

DDR2

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

64 MB

8 GB

Memory bus width

64 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

400 MHz

14 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

3.2 GB/s

224.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x DVI

1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

HDMI

DirectX

9.0a

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.6

OpenCL

N/A

3.0

OpenGL

1.5 (2.1)

4.6

Shader Model

6.6

Vulkan

N/A

1.3