NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2022
Apr 2017
Generation
GeForce 30
GeForce 10
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1515 MHz
1607 MHz
Boost Clock
1755 MHz
1733 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
1376 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5X
Memory Bus
128bit
256bit
Bandwidth
224.0GB/s
352.3GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
18
20
Shading Units
2304
2560
TMUs
72
160
ROPs
32
64
Tensor Cores
72
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RT Cores
18
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L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
48 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
2 MB
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
56.16 GPixel/s
110.9 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
126.4 GTexel/s
277.3 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
8.087 TFLOPS
138.6 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
8.087 TFLOPS
8.873 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
126.4 GFLOPS
277.3 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA106
GP104
GPU Variant
GA106-150-KA-A1
GP104-410-A1
Architecture
Ampere
Pascal
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
16 nm
Transistors
12 billion
7.2 billion
Die Size
276 mm²
314 mm²
Board Design
TDP
130W
180W
Suggested PSU
300 W
450 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
CUDA
8.6
6.1
Shader Model
6.6
6.4
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.