NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107 and 10GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 4% (1777MHz vs 1710MHz)

Lower TDP (115W vs 320W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 's Advantages

More VRAM (10GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (760.3GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

6144 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107

9.098 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 +227%

29.77 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107

VS

GeForce RTX 3080

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

1552 MHz

Base Clock

1440 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

1710 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

10GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6X

128bit

Memory Bus

320bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

760.3GB/s

Render Config

-

20

SM Count

68

2560

Shading Units

8704

80

TMUs

272

32

ROPs

96

80

Tensor Cores

272

20

RT Cores

68

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

5 MB

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Theoretical Performance

56.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

164.2 GPixel/s

142.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

465.1 GTexel/s

9.098 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

29.77 TFLOPS

9.098 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.77 TFLOPS

142.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

465.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

115W

TDP

320W

300 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

GA102

GA107-150-A1

GPU Variant

GA102-200-KD-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Ampere

Samsung

Foundry

Samsung

8 nm

Process Size

8 nm

Unknown

Transistors

28.3 billion

Unknown

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

6.6

Shader Model

6.6

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