NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 46% (1777MHz vs 1216MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

512 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (115W vs 165W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980

4.981 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107 +82%

9.098 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980

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GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Jan 2022

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

1552 MHz

1216 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

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SM Count

20

2048

Shading Units

2560

128

TMUs

80

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

80

-

RT Cores

20

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

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Theoretical Performance

77.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

56.86 GPixel/s

155.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

142.2 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

9.098 TFLOPS

4.981 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.098 TFLOPS

155.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

142.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

165W

TDP

115W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

GA107

GM204-400-A1

GPU Variant

GA107-150-A1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

Unknown

398 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

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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