GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB vs GTS 450 Rev. 2

Place in the ranking	666	163
Place by popularity	not in top-100	11
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	no data	69.12
Power efficiency	2.90	17.53
Architecture	Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)	Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code name	GF116	GA106
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	15 March 2011 (13 years ago)	4 January 2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	no data	$249

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	192	2560
Core clock speed	783 MHz	1552 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	1777 MHz
Number of transistors	1,170 million	12,000 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	106 Watt	130 Watt
Texture fill rate	25.06	142.2
Floating-point processing power	0.6013 TFLOPS	9.098 TFLOPS
ROPs	16	32
TMUs	32	80
Tensor Cores	no data	80
Ray Tracing Cores	no data	20

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x8
Length	210 mm	242 mm
Width	2-slot	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	1x 8-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	8 GB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	902 MHz	1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth	57.73 GB/s	224.0 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI	1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI	+	+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	12 (11_0)	12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model	5.1	6.6
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	1.1	3.0
Vulkan	N/A	1.3
CUDA	2.1	8.6

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	4.41	32.70
Recency	15 March 2011	4 January 2022
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	8 GB
Chip lithography	40 nm	8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	106 Watt	130 Watt

GTS 450 Rev. 2 has 22.6% lower power consumption.

RTX 3050 8 GB, on the other hand, has a 641.5% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 10 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 400% more advanced lithography process.

The GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB is our recommended choice as it beats the GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2 in performance tests.

Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.