NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 9 months late

Lower TDP (70W vs 180W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 18% (1733MHz vs 1470MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.3GB/s vs 168.0GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

6.774 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080 +30%

8.873 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

4831

GeForce GTX 1080 +55%

7533

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

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GeForce GTX 1080

Graphics Card

Feb 2024

Release Date

May 2016

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1042 MHz

Base Clock

1607 MHz

1470 MHz

Boost Clock

1733 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1251 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5X

96bit

Memory Bus

256bit

168.0GB/s

Bandwidth

320.3GB/s

Render Config

18

SM Count

20

-

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

2560

72

TMUs

160

32

ROPs

64

72

Tensor Cores

-

18

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

47.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

110.9 GPixel/s

105.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

277.3 GTexel/s

6.774 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

138.6 GFLOPS

6.774 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.873 TFLOPS

105.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

277.3 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

GP104

GA107-325-K2-A1

GPU Variant

GP104-400-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Pascal

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

16 nm

8.7 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Board Design

70W

TDP

180W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

6.1

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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