NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4090 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 OEM 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 44% (2520MHz vs 1755MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 8GB)

14080 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM 's Advantages

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

Lower TDP (130W vs 450W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4090 +921%

82.58 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

8.087 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce RTX 4090 +725%

12921

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

1566

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 4090 +825%

185

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

20

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 4090 +460%

280

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

50

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 4090 +334%

304

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

70

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 4090 +541%

186

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

29

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 4090 +212%

203

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

65

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 4090 +159%

213

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

82

GeForce RTX 4090

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GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

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

1515 MHz

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

1755 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

18

-

Compute Units

-

16384

Shading Units

2304

512

TMUs

72

176

ROPs

32

512

Tensor Cores

72

128

RT Cores

18

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

72 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

443.5 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

56.16 GPixel/s

1290 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

126.4 GTexel/s

82.58 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

8.087 TFLOPS

82.58 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.087 TFLOPS

1290 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

126.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD102

GPU Name

GA106

AD102-300-A1

GPU Variant

GA106-150-KA-A1

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

5 nm

Process Size

8 nm

76.3 billion

Transistors

12 billion

609 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Board Design

450W

TDP

130W

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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