NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 6 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 6 GB 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 1 months late

Lower TDP (70W vs 350W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 16% (1710MHz vs 1470MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (912.4GB/s vs 168.0GB/s)

6656 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

6.774 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +352%

30.64 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

4838

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +289%

18851

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

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GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

Graphics Card

Feb 2024

Release Date

Jan 2022

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1042 MHz

Base Clock

1260 MHz

1470 MHz

Boost Clock

1710 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6X

96bit

Memory Bus

384bit

168.0GB/s

Bandwidth

912.4GB/s

Render Config

-

18

SM Count

70

2304

Shading Units

8960

72

TMUs

280

32

ROPs

96

72

Tensor Cores

280

18

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

47.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

164.2 GPixel/s

105.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

478.8 GTexel/s

6.774 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

30.64 TFLOPS

6.774 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

30.64 TFLOPS

105.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

478.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

70W

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

GA102

GA107-325-K2-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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