NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Ti 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 980 Ti 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.6GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 65% (1777MHz vs 1076MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Lower TDP (130W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

6.06 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +50%

9.098 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

5758

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +8%

6254

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +20%

24

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

20

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +7%

45

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

42

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

75

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +9%

82

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +80%

72

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

40

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +54%

74

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

48

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +5%

120

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

114

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

VS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

Graphics Card

Jun 2015

Release Date

Jan 2022

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

1552 MHz

1076 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

336.6GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

20

-

Compute Units

-

2816

Shading Units

2560

176

TMUs

80

96

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

80

-

RT Cores

20

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

103.3 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

56.86 GPixel/s

189.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

142.2 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

9.098 TFLOPS

6.060 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.098 TFLOPS

189.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

142.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM200

GPU Name

GA106

GM200-310-A1

GPU Variant

GA106-150-KA-A1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

8 billion

Transistors

12 billion

601 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

130W

600 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-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

5.2

CUDA

8.6

6.4

Shader Model

6.6

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