NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4050 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 's Advantages

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

Lower TDP (100W vs 350W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB 's Advantages

More VRAM (12GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (912.4GB/s vs 216.0GB/s)

6400 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4050

13.52 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +126%

30.64 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4050

VS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Jan 2022

GeForce 40

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2505 MHz

Base Clock

1260 MHz

2640 MHz

Boost Clock

1710 MHz

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6X

96bit

Memory Bus

384bit

216.0GB/s

Bandwidth

912.4GB/s

Render Config

-

18

SM Count

70

2560

Shading Units

8960

80

TMUs

280

32

ROPs

96

120

Tensor Cores

280

18

RT Cores

70

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

32 MB

L2 Cache

5 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

84.48 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

164.2 GPixel/s

211.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

478.8 GTexel/s

13.52 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

30.64 TFLOPS

13.52 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

30.64 TFLOPS

211.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

478.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

350W

300 W

Suggested PSU

750 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 Processor

AD107

GPU Name

GA102

-

GPU Variant

GA102-220-A1

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

5 nm

Process Size

8 nm

18.9 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

159 mm²

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

8.9

CUDA

8.6

6.7

Shader Model

6.6

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