NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 A graphics comparison: performance score, cores and clock speeds, VRAM, TGP, cache, and RT and AI units. The better value in each row is highlighted in green.
Summary
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB offers more compute units (CUDA cores: 2560 vs 1792), more VRAM (6 GB vs 4 GB), a wider memory bus (96 bit vs 64 bit), and more RT units (20 vs 14). NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 A offers a smaller manufacturing process (5 nm vs 8 nm).
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Key specs
CUDA cores2560
CUDA cores1792
Boost1492 MHz
BoostN/A
VRAM6 GB
VRAM4 GB
Memory bus96 bit
Memory bus64 bit
TGP35–95 W
TGP35–95 W
MemoryGDDR6
MemoryGDDR6
General
SeriesRTX 30 Mobile
SeriesRTX 30 Mobile
GPU architectureAmpere
GPU architectureAda Lovelace
GPU chipGA107
GPU chipAD106
Chip variantGN20-P0-R-K2
FoundrySamsung
FoundryTSMC
Process node8 nm
Process node5 nm
Die size200 mm²
Die size190 mm²
Transistors8.7 billion
Transistors22.9 billion
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x8
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x8
Release dateJuly 6, 2022
Release dateJuly 26, 2024
Cores and clocks
CUDA cores2560
CUDA cores1792
20× SM
14× SM
Boost clock (max)1492 MHz
Boost clock (max)N/A
Boost clock (min)990 MHz
Memory
VRAM6 GB
VRAM4 GB
MemoryGDDR6
MemoryGDDR6
Memory bus96 bit
Memory bus64 bit
Memory speed14 Gb/s
Memory speedN/A
Bandwidth168 GB/s
BandwidthN/A
TGP
TGP range35 - 80 W
TGP range35 - 80 W
Dynamic Boost15 W
Dynamic Boost15 W
Cache
L2 cache1.5 MB
L2 cacheN/A
L1 cache128 KB
L1 cache128 KB
Units
TMUs80
TMUs56
ROPs32
ROPs32
RT cores20
RT cores14
Tensor cores80
Tensor cores56
SM blocks20
SM blocks14
AI
AI performanceN/A
AI performanceN/A