NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Ti 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 8 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 37% (1470MHz vs 1076MHz)

Lower TDP (70W vs 250W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.6GB/s vs 168.0GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB +11%

6.774 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

6.06 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

4831

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +19%

5757

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

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GeForce GTX 980 Ti

Graphics Card

Feb 2024

Release Date

Jun 2015

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1042 MHz

Base Clock

1000 MHz

1470 MHz

Boost Clock

1076 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

96bit

Memory Bus

384bit

168.0GB/s

Bandwidth

336.6GB/s

Render Config

18

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

2816

72

TMUs

176

32

ROPs

96

72

Tensor Cores

-

18

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

47.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

103.3 GPixel/s

105.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

189.4 GTexel/s

6.774 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.774 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.060 TFLOPS

105.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

189.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

GM200

GA107-325-K2-A1

GPU Variant

GM200-310-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

8.7 billion

Transistors

8 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

601 mm²

Board Design

70W

TDP

250W

250 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 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

5.2

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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