NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4080 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
Lower TDP (90W vs 285W)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 50% (2610MHz vs 1740MHz)
More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (504.2GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)
5632 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB
7.127 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB
+462%
40.09 TFLOPS
Blender
GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB
1528
GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB
+503%
9224
OctaneBench
GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB
175
GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB
+436%
938
Graphics Card
Jan 2022
Release Date
Unknown
GeForce 30
Generation
GeForce 40
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1545 MHz
Base Clock
2310 MHz
1740 MHz
Boost Clock
2610 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
1313 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR6X
128bit
Memory Bus
192bit
192.0GB/s
Bandwidth
504.2GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
16
SM Count
60
2048
Shading Units
7680
64
TMUs
240
32
ROPs
80
64
Tensor Cores
240
16
RT Cores
60
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
48 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
55.68 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
208.8 GPixel/s
111.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
626.4 GTexel/s
7.127 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
40.09 TFLOPS
7.127 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
40.09 TFLOPS
111.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
626.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
90W
TDP
285W
250 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 16-pin
Graphics Processor
GA107
GPU Name
AD104
GA107-140-A1
GPU Variant
AD104-400-A1
Ampere
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
4 nm
8.7 billion
Transistors
35.8 billion
200 mm²
Die Size
295 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
8.9
6.7
Shader Model
6.6
