GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB vs GeForce 210

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR6DESKTOP
Release date: 4 Jan 2022
GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB
GeForce 210
Memory: 512Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 12 Oct 2009
GeForce 210

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce RTX 3050 8 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 210

99 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce RTX 3050 8 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 8 GBGeForce 210
GPU NameGA106 (GA106-150-A1)vsGT218 (GT218-300-B1)
Fab Process8 nmvs40 nm
Die Size276 mm²vs57 mm²
Transistors13,250 millionvs260 million
Shaders2560vs16
Compute Units20vs2
Core clock1552 MHzvs520 MHz
ROPs48vs4
TMUs80vs8

Memory Configuration

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GBGeForce 210
Memory TypeGDDR6vsDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed1750 MHz
14 Gbps effective
vs400 MHz
800 MHz effective
Memory Size8192 Mbvs512 Mb

Additional details

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GBGeForce 210
TDP130 wattsvs31 watts
Release Date4 Jan 2022vs12 Oct 2009

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB
    85.30 GP/s
  • GeForce 210
    2.08 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB
    142.20 GT/s
  • GeForce 210
    4.16 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB
    224.00 GB/s
  • GeForce 210
    6.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB
    9098.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce 210
    39.36 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better