NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 and 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.3GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 0% (1740MHz vs 1733MHz)

Lower TDP (90W vs 180W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1080 +24%

8.873 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

7.127 TFLOPS

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1080 +6%

32

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

30

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1080 +3%

62

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

60

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1080 +16%

99

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

85

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1080 +4%

52

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

50

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1080 +32%

97

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

73

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1080 +26%

128

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

101

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1080 +47%

56

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

38

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1080

74

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

74

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1080 +40%

154

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

110

GeForce GTX 1080

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GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

Graphics Card

May 2016

Release Date

Jan 2022

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1607 MHz

Base Clock

1545 MHz

1733 MHz

Boost Clock

1740 MHz

1251 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

320.3GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

20

SM Count

16

-

Compute Units

-

2560

Shading Units

2048

160

TMUs

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

64

-

RT Cores

16

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

110.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

55.68 GPixel/s

277.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

111.4 GTexel/s

138.6 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

7.127 TFLOPS

8.873 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.127 TFLOPS

277.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

111.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

GA107

GP104-400-A1

GPU Variant

GA107-140-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

16 nm

Process Size

8 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

8.7 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Board Design

180W

TDP

90W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

6.1

CUDA

8.6

6.4

Shader Model

6.7

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