NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.3GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB's Advantages

Released 5 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 3% (1777MHz vs 1733MHz)

Lower TDP (130W vs 180W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1080

8.873 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +2%

9.098 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1080 +20%

7533

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

6242

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1080 +60%

32

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

20

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1080 +47%

62

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

42

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1080 +20%

99

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

82

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1080 +79%

52

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

29

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1080 +49%

97

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

65

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1080 +56%

128

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

82

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1080 +40%

56

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

40

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1080 +54%

74

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

48

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1080 +35%

154

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

114

GeForce GTX 1080

VS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

Graphics Card

May 2016

Release Date

Jan 2022

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1607MHz

Base Clock

1552MHz

1733MHz

Boost Clock

1777MHz

1251MHz

Memory Clock

1750MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

320.3 GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0 GB/s

Render Config

20

SM Count

20

-

Compute Units

-

2560

Shading Units

2560

160

TMUs

80

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

80

-

RT Cores

20

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2MB

L2 Cache

2MB

Theoretical Performance

110.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

56.86 GPixel/s

277.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

142.2 GTexel/s

138.6 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

9.098 TFLOPS

8.873 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.098 TFLOPS

277.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

142.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

GA106

GP104-400-A1

GPU Variant

GA106-150-KA-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

16 nm

Process Size

8 nm

7,200 million

Transistors

12,000 million

314mm²

Die Size

276mm²

Board Design

180W

TDP

130W

450W

Suggested PSU

300W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

6.1

CUDA

8.6

6.4

Shader Model

6.6

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