GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 vs GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 's Advantages
Lower TDP (20W vs 115W)
GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 29% (1777MHz vs 1379MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 16.80GB/s)
2176 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
1059
GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107
+759%
9098
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
638
GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107
+1057%
7384
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
177
GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107
+1815%
3391
Graphics Card
Mar 2018
Release Date
Jan 2022
GeForce 10
Generation
GeForce 30
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x4
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
1152 MHz
Base Clock
1552 MHz
1379 MHz
Boost Clock
1777 MHz
1050 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
8GB
DDR4
Memory Type
GDDR6
64bit
Memory Bus
128bit
16.80GB/s
Bandwidth
224.0GB/s
Render Config
3
SM Count
20
384
Shading Units
2560
24
TMUs
80
16
ROPs
32
-
Tensor Cores
80
-
RT Cores
20
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
22.06 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
56.86 GPixel/s
33.10 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
142.2 GTexel/s
16.55 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
9.098 TFLOPS
1059 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
9.098 TFLOPS
33.10 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
142.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
20W
TDP
115W
200 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
None
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GP108
GPU Name
GA107
GP108-310-A1
GPU Variant
GA107-150-A1
Pascal
Architecture
Ampere
Samsung
Foundry
Samsung
14 nm
Process Size
8 nm
1.8 billion
Transistors
Unknown
74 mm²
Die Size
Unknown
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
