NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 6 GB

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 780 6 GB and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 6 GB 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.4GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 97% (1777MHz vs 902MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (130W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 780 6 GB

4.156 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +118%

9.098 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 780 6 GB

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GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

Graphics Card

Sep 2013

Release Date

Jan 2022

GeForce 700

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

863 MHz

Base Clock

1552 MHz

902 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

288.4GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

20

2304

Shading Units

2560

192

TMUs

80

48

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

80

-

RT Cores

20

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

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Theoretical Performance

43.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

56.86 GPixel/s

173.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

142.2 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

9.098 TFLOPS

4.156 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.098 TFLOPS

173.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

142.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

130W

600 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GK110B

GPU Name

GA106

GK110-301-B1

GPU Variant

GA106-150-KA-A1

Kepler

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

7.08 billion

Transistors

12 billion

561 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.1

Vulkan

1.3

3.5

CUDA

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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