NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4050 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.3GB/s vs 216.0GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 52% (2640MHz vs 1733MHz)

Lower TDP (150W vs 180W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1080

8.873 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4050 +52%

13.52 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080

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GeForce RTX 4050

Graphics Card

May 2016

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1607MHz

Base Clock

2505MHz

1733MHz

Boost Clock

2640MHz

1251MHz

Memory Clock

2250MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

96bit

320.3 GB/s

Bandwidth

216.0 GB/s

Render Config

20

SM Count

18

-

Compute Units

-

2560

Shading Units

2560

160

TMUs

80

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

120

-

RT Cores

18

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2MB

L2 Cache

32MB

Theoretical Performance

110.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

84.48 GPixel/s

277.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

211.2 GTexel/s

138.6 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

13.52 TFLOPS

8.873 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.52 TFLOPS

277.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

211.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

AD107

GP104-400-A1

GPU Variant

-

Pascal

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

5 nm

7,200 million

Transistors

18,900 million

314mm²

Die Size

159mm²

Board Design

180W

TDP

150W

450W

Suggested PSU

450W

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 12-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

8.9

6.4

Shader Model

6.7

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