GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB vs XGI Volari V3

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated162
Place by popularitynot in top-10011
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data69.02
Power efficiencyno data18.14
ArchitectureXG4 (2003−2005)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameXG42GA106
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date15 September 2003 (21 year 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 coresno data2560
Core clock speed200 MHz1552 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1777 MHz
Number of transistors25 million12,000 million
Manufacturing process technology130 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data130 Watt
Texture fill rate0.8142.2
Floating-point processing powerno data9.098 TFLOPS
ROPs232
TMUs480
Tensor Coresno data80
Ray Tracing Coresno data20

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).

InterfaceAGP 8xPCIe 4.0 x8
Lengthno data242 mm
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 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 typeDDRGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount128 MB8 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed200 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth6.4 GB/s224.0 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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX8.112 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.6
OpenGL1.34.6
OpenCLN/A3.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 15 September 2003 4 January 2022
Maximum RAM amount 128 MB 8 GB
Chip lithography 130 nm 8 nm

RTX 3050 8 GB has an age advantage of 18 years, a 6300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 1525% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between XGI Volari V3 and GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB. We've got no test results to judge.


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