GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB vs GeForce 505 OEM

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR6DESKTOP
Release date: 27 Jan 2022
GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB
GeForce 505 OEM
Memory: 512Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 6 Jan 2013
GeForce 505 OEM

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports DirectX Raytracing (DXR)
Supports Deep Learning Super-Sampling (DLSS)

Reasons to consider GeForce 505 OEM

65 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB .
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications
PhysX support, however PhysX performance on newest games may be poor

No clear winner declared

We have no data to declare a winner at this time.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GBGeForce 505 OEM
GPU NameGA106 (GA106-140-A1)vsGT218 (GT218-300-B1)
Fab Process8 nmvs40 nm
Die Size276 mm²vs57 mm²
Transistors13,250 millionvs260 million
Shaders2304vs16
Compute Units18vs2
Core clock1545 MHzvs589 MHz
ROPs40vs4
TMUs72vs8

Memory Configuration

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GBGeForce 505 OEM
Memory TypeGDDR6vsDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed1750 MHz
14 Gbps effective
vs600 MHz
1200 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs512 Mb

Additional details

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GBGeForce 505 OEM
TDP90 wattsvs25 watts
Release Date27 Jan 2022vs6 Jan 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB
    69.60 GP/s
  • GeForce 505 OEM
    2.36 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB
    125.30 GT/s
  • GeForce 505 OEM
    4.71 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB
    224.00 GB/s
  • GeForce 505 OEM
    9.60 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB
    8018.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce 505 OEM
    44.86 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better