NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB 's Advantages

Released 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 41% (2505MHz vs 1777MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (716.8GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

7168 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB 's Advantages

Lower TDP (130W vs 320W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB +435%

48.74 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

9.098 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB

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GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

Graphics Card

Sep 2022

Release Date

Jan 2022

GeForce 40

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

2205 MHz

Base Clock

1552 MHz

2505 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

716.8GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

76

SM Count

20

9728

Shading Units

2560

304

TMUs

80

112

ROPs

32

304

Tensor Cores

80

76

RT Cores

20

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

64 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

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Theoretical Performance

280.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

56.86 GPixel/s

761.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

142.2 GTexel/s

48.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

9.098 TFLOPS

48.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.098 TFLOPS

761.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

142.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

320W

TDP

130W

700 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

AD103

GPU Name

GA106

AD103-300-A1

GPU Variant

GA106-150-KA-A1

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

4 nm

Process Size

8 nm

45.9 billion

Transistors

12 billion

379 mm²

Die Size

276 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

6.6

Shader Model

6.6

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