NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 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 RTX 3050 4 GB 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1740MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1536GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 177.4GB/s)

1568 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (90W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 480

1.345 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +429%

7.127 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480

VS

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

Graphics Card

Mar 2010

Release Date

Jan 2022

GeForce 400

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1545 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1740 MHz

924 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

177.4GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

-

15

SM Count

16

480

Shading Units

2048

60

TMUs

64

48

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

64

-

RT Cores

16

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

21.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

55.68 GPixel/s

42.06 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

111.4 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

7.127 TFLOPS

1345 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.127 TFLOPS

168.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

111.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

90W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GF100

GPU Name

GA107

GF100-375-A3

GPU Variant

GA107-140-A1

Fermi

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

40 nm

Process Size

8 nm

3.1 billion

Transistors

8.7 billion

529 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

2.0

CUDA

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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