GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB vs A16 PCIe
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB and 16GB VRAM A16 PCIe to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB 's Advantages
Released 9 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 3% (1740MHz vs 1695MHz)
768 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (90W vs 250W)
A16 PCIe 's Advantages
More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (231.9GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB
+64%
7127
A16 PCIe
4339
Blender
GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB
+199%
1528
A16 PCIe
510
Graphics Card
Jan 2022
Release Date
Apr 2021
GeForce 30
Generation
Tesla
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
1545 MHz
Base Clock
885 MHz
1740 MHz
Boost Clock
1695 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
1812 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR6
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
192.0GB/s
Bandwidth
231.9GB/s
Render Config
16
SM Count
10
2048
Shading Units
1280
64
TMUs
40
32
ROPs
32
64
Tensor Cores
40
16
RT Cores
10
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
55.68 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
54.24 GPixel/s
111.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
67.80 GTexel/s
7.127 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
4.339 TFLOPS
7.127 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.339 TFLOPS
111.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
135.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
90W
TDP
250W
250 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
No outputs
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
8-pin EPS
Graphics Processor
GA107
GPU Name
GA107
GA107-140-A1
GPU Variant
-
Ampere
Architecture
Ampere
Samsung
Foundry
Samsung
8 nm
Process Size
8 nm
8.7 billion
Transistors
Unknown
200 mm²
Die Size
Unknown
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
8.6
6.7
Shader Model
6.6
