NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB and 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4090 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 450W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 's Advantages

Released 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 45% (2520MHz vs 1740MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1.01TB/s vs 192.0GB/s)

14336 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

7.127 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4090 +1058%

82.58 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

1528

GeForce RTX 4090 +711%

12393

OctaneBench

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

175

GeForce RTX 4090 +628%

1274

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

30

GeForce RTX 4090 +516%

185

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

60

GeForce RTX 4090 +366%

280

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

85

GeForce RTX 4090 +257%

304

Cyberpunk 2077 2160p

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

26

GeForce RTX 4090 +261%

94

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

39

GeForce RTX 4090 +374%

185

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

42

GeForce RTX 4090 +364%

195

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

50

GeForce RTX 4090 +272%

186

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

73

GeForce RTX 4090 +178%

203

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

101

GeForce RTX 4090 +110%

213

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

38

GeForce RTX 4090 +334%

165

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

74

GeForce RTX 4090 +150%

185

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

110

GeForce RTX 4090 +69%

186

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

VS

GeForce RTX 4090

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Sep 2022

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1545 MHz

Base Clock

2235 MHz

1740 MHz

Boost Clock

2520 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1313 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6X

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

1.01TB/s

Render Config

-

16

SM Count

128

2048

Shading Units

16384

64

TMUs

512

32

ROPs

176

64

Tensor Cores

512

16

RT Cores

128

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

72 MB

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Theoretical Performance

55.68 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

443.5 GPixel/s

111.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1290 GTexel/s

7.127 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

82.58 TFLOPS

7.127 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

82.58 TFLOPS

111.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1290 GFLOPS

Board Design

90W

TDP

450W

250 W

Suggested PSU

850 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

AD102

GA107-140-A1

GPU Variant

AD102-300-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

5 nm

8.7 billion

Transistors

76.3 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

609 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

6.8

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