NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB and 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3090 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 1 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 3% (1740MHz vs 1695MHz)

Lower TDP (90W vs 350W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 's Advantages

More VRAM (24GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (936.2GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)

8448 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

7.127 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3090 +399%

35.58 TFLOPS

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

30

GeForce RTX 3090 +210%

93

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

60

GeForce RTX 3090 +156%

154

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

85

GeForce RTX 3090 +135%

200

Cyberpunk 2077 2160p

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

26

GeForce RTX 3090 +153%

66

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

39

GeForce RTX 3090 +102%

79

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

42

GeForce RTX 3090 +171%

114

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

50

GeForce RTX 3090 +132%

116

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

73

GeForce RTX 3090 +158%

189

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

101

GeForce RTX 3090 +97%

199

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

38

GeForce RTX 3090 +247%

132

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

74

GeForce RTX 3090 +145%

182

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

110

GeForce RTX 3090 +90%

209

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

VS

GeForce RTX 3090

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Sep 2020

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1545 MHz

Base Clock

1395 MHz

1740 MHz

Boost Clock

1695 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1219 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6X

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

936.2GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

82

-

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

10496

64

TMUs

328

32

ROPs

112

64

Tensor Cores

328

16

RT Cores

82

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

6 MB

Theoretical Performance

55.68 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

189.8 GPixel/s

111.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

556.0 GTexel/s

7.127 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

35.58 TFLOPS

7.127 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

35.58 TFLOPS

111.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

556.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

GA102

GA107-140-A1

GPU Variant

GA102-300-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

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 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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