NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4090 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

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 's Advantages

Released 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 42% (2520MHz vs 1777MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 8GB)

13824 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0TB/s vs 1.01TB/s)

Lower TDP (115W vs 450W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4090 +807%

82.58 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107

9.098 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4090

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GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107

Graphics Card

Sep 2022

Release Date

Jan 2022

GeForce 40

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

2235 MHz

Base Clock

1552 MHz

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1313 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

1.01TB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

128

SM Count

20

-

Compute Units

-

16384

Shading Units

2560

512

TMUs

80

176

ROPs

32

512

Tensor Cores

80

128

RT Cores

20

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

72 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

443.5 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

56.86 GPixel/s

1290 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

142.2 GTexel/s

82.58 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

9.098 TFLOPS

82.58 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.098 TFLOPS

1290 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

142.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD102

GPU Name

GA107

AD102-300-A1

GPU Variant

GA107-150-A1

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

5 nm

Process Size

8 nm

76.3 billion

Transistors

Unknown

609 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Board Design

450W

TDP

115W

850 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-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

8.9

CUDA

8.6

6.7

Shader Model

6.6

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