NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4080 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 4080 's Advantages
Released 8 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 44% (2505MHz vs 1740MHz)
More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (716.8GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)
7680 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB 's Advantages
Lower TDP (90W vs 320W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 4080
+583%
48.74 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB
7.127 TFLOPS
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
GeForce RTX 4080
+340%
132
GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB
30
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
GeForce RTX 4080
+310%
246
GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB
60
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
GeForce RTX 4080
+252%
300
GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB
85
Cyberpunk 2077 2160p
GeForce RTX 4080
+180%
73
GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB
26
Cyberpunk 2077 1440p
GeForce RTX 4080
+210%
121
GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB
39
Cyberpunk 2077 1080p
GeForce RTX 4080
+328%
180
GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB
42
Battlefield 5 2160p
GeForce RTX 4080
+146%
123
GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB
50
Battlefield 5 1440p
GeForce RTX 4080
+126%
165
GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB
73
Battlefield 5 1080p
GeForce RTX 4080
+86%
188
GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB
101
GTA 5 2160p
GeForce RTX 4080
+231%
126
GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB
38
GTA 5 1440p
GeForce RTX 4080
+144%
181
GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB
74
GTA 5 1080p
GeForce RTX 4080
+65%
182
GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB
110
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
1545 MHz
2505 MHz
Boost Clock
1740 MHz
1400 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR6X
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
716.8GB/s
Bandwidth
192.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
76
SM Count
16
9728
Shading Units
2048
304
TMUs
64
112
ROPs
32
304
Tensor Cores
64
76
RT Cores
16
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
64 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
280.6 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
55.68 GPixel/s
761.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
111.4 GTexel/s
48.74 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
7.127 TFLOPS
48.74 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
7.127 TFLOPS
761.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
111.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
320W
TDP
90W
700 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 16-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
AD103
GPU Name
GA107
AD103-300-A1
GPU Variant
GA107-140-A1
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
5 nm
Process Size
8 nm
45.9 billion
Transistors
8.7 billion
379 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
8.9
CUDA
8.6
6.7
Shader Model
6.7
