NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 10GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4050 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 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (760.3GB/s vs 216.0GB/s)

6144 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 54% (2640MHz vs 1710MHz)

Lower TDP (100W vs 320W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3080 +120%

29.77 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4050

13.52 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080

VS

GeForce RTX 4050

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1440 MHz

Base Clock

2505 MHz

1710 MHz

Boost Clock

2640 MHz

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

10GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR6

320bit

Memory Bus

96bit

760.3GB/s

Bandwidth

216.0GB/s

Render Config

68

SM Count

18

-

Compute Units

-

8704

Shading Units

2560

272

TMUs

80

96

ROPs

32

272

Tensor Cores

120

68

RT Cores

18

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

5 MB

L2 Cache

32 MB

Theoretical Performance

164.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

84.48 GPixel/s

465.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

211.2 GTexel/s

29.77 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

13.52 TFLOPS

29.77 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.52 TFLOPS

465.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

211.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

AD107

GA102-200-KD-A1

GPU Variant

-

Ampere

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

5 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

18.9 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

159 mm²

Board Design

320W

TDP

100W

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 12-pin

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

8.9

6.6

Shader Model

6.7

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