NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps 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 4 years and 9 months late

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

Lower TDP (90W vs 180W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (352.3GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

7.127 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps +24%

8.873 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

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GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Apr 2017

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1545 MHz

Base Clock

1607 MHz

1740 MHz

Boost Clock

1733 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1376 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5X

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

352.3GB/s

Render Config

-

16

SM Count

20

2048

Shading Units

2560

64

TMUs

160

32

ROPs

64

Tensor Cores

-

16

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

55.68 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

110.9 GPixel/s

111.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

277.3 GTexel/s

7.127 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

138.6 GFLOPS

7.127 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.873 TFLOPS

111.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

277.3 GFLOPS

Board Design

90W

TDP

180W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

GP104

GA107-140-A1

GPU Variant

GP104-410-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Pascal

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

16 nm

8.7 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

6.1

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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