NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 780 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 93% (1740MHz vs 902MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (90W vs 250W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.4GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +71%

7.127 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 780

4.156 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +438%

1841

GeForce GTX 780

342

OctaneBench

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +105%

181

GeForce GTX 780

88

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

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GeForce GTX 780

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

May 2013

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1545 MHz

Base Clock

863 MHz

1740 MHz

Boost Clock

902 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

288.4GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

2304

64

TMUs

192

32

ROPs

48

64

Tensor Cores

-

16

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

55.68 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

43.30 GPixel/s

111.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

173.2 GTexel/s

7.127 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.127 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.156 TFLOPS

111.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

173.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

GK110

GA107-140-A1

GPU Variant

GK110-300-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Kepler

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

8.7 billion

Transistors

7.08 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

561 mm²

Board Design

90W

TDP

250W

250 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.1

8.6

CUDA

3.5

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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