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

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107

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

Main Differences

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

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)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3080 +227%

29.77 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107

9.098 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080

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GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

Jan 2022

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1440 MHz

Base Clock

1552 MHz

1710 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

10GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR6

320bit

Memory Bus

128bit

760.3GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

68

SM Count

20

8704

Shading Units

2560

272

TMUs

80

96

ROPs

32

272

Tensor Cores

80

68

RT Cores

20

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

5 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

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Theoretical Performance

164.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

56.86 GPixel/s

465.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

142.2 GTexel/s

29.77 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

9.098 TFLOPS

29.77 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.098 TFLOPS

465.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

142.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

320W

TDP

115W

700 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

GA107

GA102-200-KD-A1

GPU Variant

GA107-150-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Ampere

Samsung

Foundry

Samsung

8 nm

Process Size

8 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

Unknown

628 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

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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