GeForce RTX 4090 vs GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4090 and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 4090 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 71% (2520MHz vs 1470MHz)
More VRAM (24GB vs 6GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1.01TB/s vs 168.0GB/s)
14080 additional rendering cores
GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 5 months late
Lower TDP (70W vs 450W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 4090
+1119%
82580
GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB
6774
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce RTX 4090
+648%
36328
GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB
4853
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce RTX 4090
+791%
19460
GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB
2182
3DMark Speed Way
GeForce RTX 4090
+797%
10074
GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB
1123
Graphics Card
Sep 2022
Release Date
Feb 2024
GeForce 40
Generation
GeForce 30
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
2235 MHz
Base Clock
1042 MHz
2520 MHz
Boost Clock
1470 MHz
1313 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
24GB
Memory Size
6GB
GDDR6X
Memory Type
GDDR6
384bit
Memory Bus
96bit
1.01TB/s
Bandwidth
168.0GB/s
Render Config
128
SM Count
18
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
47.04 GPixel/s
1290 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
105.8 GTexel/s
82.58 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
6.774 TFLOPS
82.58 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
6.774 TFLOPS
1290 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
105.8 GFLOPS
Board Design
450W
TDP
70W
850 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 16-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
AD102
GPU Name
GA107
AD102-300-A1
GPU Variant
GA107-325-K2-A1
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
5 nm
Process Size
8 nm
76.3 billion
Transistors
8.7 billion
609 mm²
Die Size
200 mm²
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
6.8
Shader Model
6.7
