NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 12 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

Boost Clock has increased by 2% (1740MHz vs 1710MHz)

Lower TDP (90W vs 350W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB 's Advantages

More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (912.4GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)

6912 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

7.127 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +329%

30.64 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

1528

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +262%

5543

OctaneBench

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

175

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +217%

556

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

30

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +193%

88

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

60

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +151%

151

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

85

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +124%

191

Cyberpunk 2077 2160p

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

26

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +134%

61

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

39

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +84%

72

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

42

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +152%

106

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

50

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +118%

109

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

73

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +152%

184

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

101

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +96%

198

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

38

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +147%

94

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

74

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +91%

142

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

110

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +56%

172

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

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GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Jan 2022

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1545 MHz

Base Clock

1260 MHz

1740 MHz

Boost Clock

1710 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6X

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

912.4GB/s

Render Config

-

16

SM Count

70

2048

Shading Units

8960

64

TMUs

280

32

ROPs

96

64

Tensor Cores

280

16

RT Cores

70

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

5 MB

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Theoretical Performance

55.68 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

164.2 GPixel/s

111.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

478.8 GTexel/s

7.127 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

30.64 TFLOPS

7.127 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

30.64 TFLOPS

111.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

478.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

90W

TDP

350W

250 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

GA102

GA107-140-A1

GPU Variant

GA102-220-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Ampere

Samsung

Foundry

Samsung

8 nm

Process Size

8 nm

8.7 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

628 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

8.6

6.7

Shader Model

6.6

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