GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB vs GeForce 9300 GS

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR6DESKTOP
Release date: 27 Jan 2022
GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB
GeForce 9300 GS
Memory: 512Mb DDR2DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Jun 2008
GeForce 9300 GS

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 9300 GS

Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 9300 GS
GPU NameGA106 (GA106-140-A1)vsG98 (G98-700-U2)
Fab Process8 nmvs65 nm
Die Size276 mm²vs86 mm²
Transistors13,250 millionvs210 million
Shaders2304vs8
Compute Units18vs1
Core clock1545 MHzvs567 MHz
ROPs40vs4
TMUs72vs8

Memory Configuration

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GBGeForce 9300 GS
Memory TypeGDDR6vsDDR2
Bus Width128 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed1750 MHz
14 Gbps effective
vs333 MHz
666 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs512 Mb

Additional details

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GBGeForce 9300 GS
TDP90 wattsvs0 watts
Release Date27 Jan 2022vs1 Jun 2008

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB
    69.60 GP/s
  • GeForce 9300 GS
    2.27 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB
    125.30 GT/s
  • GeForce 9300 GS
    4.54 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB
    224.00 GB/s
  • GeForce 9300 GS
    5.33 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB
    8018.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce 9300 GS
    22.40 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better