NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
May 2012
Jan 2022
Generation
GeForce 600
GeForce 30
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
915 MHz
1552 MHz
Boost Clock
1019 MHz
1777 MHz
Memory Clock
1502 MHz
1750 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
2GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
256bit
128bit
Bandwidth
192.3GB/s
224.0GB/s

Render Config

Shading Units
1536
2560
TMUs
128
80
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
2 MB
SM Count
-
20
Tensor Cores
-
80
RT Cores
-
20

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
32.61 GPixel/s
56.86 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
130.4 GTexel/s
142.2 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.130 TFLOPS
9.098 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
130.4 GFLOPS
142.2 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
9.098 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
GK104
GA106
GPU Variant
GK104-355-A2
GA106-150-KA-A1
Architecture
Kepler
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Process Size
28 nm
8 nm
Transistors
3.54 billion
12 billion
Die Size
294 mm²
276 mm²

Board Design

TDP
300W
130W
Suggested PSU
700 W
300 W
Outputs
3x DVI1x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.1
1.3
CUDA
3.0
8.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.6