NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 780 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 97% (1777MHz vs 902MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (130W vs 250W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.4GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +118%

9.098 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 780

4.156 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +124%

6261

GeForce GTX 780

2795

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

VS

GeForce GTX 780

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

May 2013

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1552 MHz

Base Clock

863 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

902 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

288.4GB/s

Render Config

-

20

SM Count

-

2560

Shading Units

2304

80

TMUs

192

32

ROPs

48

80

Tensor Cores

-

20

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

56.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

43.30 GPixel/s

142.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

173.2 GTexel/s

9.098 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

9.098 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.156 TFLOPS

142.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

173.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

130W

TDP

250W

300 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

GK110

GA106-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

GK110-300-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Kepler

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12 billion

Transistors

7.08 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

561 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.1

8.6

CUDA

3.5

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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