NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 and 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 's Advantages

Released 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 2% (1777MHz vs 1740MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB 's Advantages

Lower TDP (90W vs 195W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 +78%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

7.127 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

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GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Jan 2022

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

1545 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

1740 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

-

28

SM Count

16

3584

Shading Units

2048

112

TMUs

64

ROPs

32

112

Tensor Cores

64

28

RT Cores

16

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

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Theoretical Performance

113.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

55.68 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

111.4 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

7.127 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.127 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

111.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

195W

TDP

90W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

GA107

GA104

GPU Variant

GA107-140-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Ampere

Samsung

Foundry

Samsung

8 nm

Process Size

8 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

8.7 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

200 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

6.7

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