NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB and 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4080 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 1 years and 5 months late

Lower TDP (70W vs 320W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 70% (2505MHz vs 1470MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (716.8GB/s vs 168.0GB/s)

7424 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

6.774 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4080 +619%

48.74 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

4831

GeForce RTX 4080 +484%

28238

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

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GeForce RTX 4080

Graphics Card

Feb 2024

Release Date

Sep 2022

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1042 MHz

Base Clock

2205 MHz

1470 MHz

Boost Clock

2505 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6X

96bit

Memory Bus

256bit

168.0GB/s

Bandwidth

716.8GB/s

Render Config

18

SM Count

76

-

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

9728

72

TMUs

304

32

ROPs

112

72

Tensor Cores

304

18

RT Cores

76

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

64 MB

Theoretical Performance

47.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

280.6 GPixel/s

105.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

761.5 GTexel/s

6.774 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

48.74 TFLOPS

6.774 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

48.74 TFLOPS

105.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

761.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

AD103

GA107-325-K2-A1

GPU Variant

AD103-300-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

5 nm

8.7 billion

Transistors

45.9 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

379 mm²

Board Design

70W

TDP

320W

250 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

8.9

6.7

Shader Model

6.7

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