NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB vs NVIDIA Switch 2 GPU
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2022
Jun 2025
Generation
GeForce 30
Console GPU
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
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Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1552 MHz
561 MHz
Boost Clock
1777 MHz
1400 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
800 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
12GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
LPDDR5X
Memory Bus
128bit
128bit
Bandwidth
224.0GB/s
102.4GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
20
12
Shading Units
2560
1536
TMUs
80
48
ROPs
32
16
Tensor Cores
80
48
RT Cores
20
12
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
2 MB
4 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
56.86 GPixel/s
22.40 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
142.2 GTexel/s
67.20 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
9.098 TFLOPS
8.602 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
9.098 TFLOPS
4.301 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
142.2 GFLOPS
2.150 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA106
GA10B
GPU Variant
GA106-150-KA-A1
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Architecture
Ampere
Ampere
Foundry
Samsung
Samsung
Process Size
8 nm
8 nm
Transistors
12 billion
Unknown
Die Size
276 mm²
200 mm²
Board Design
TDP
130W
40W
Suggested PSU
300 W
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Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
No outputs
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
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Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
CUDA
8.6
8.6
Shader Model
6.6
6.8
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.