NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (Desktop)

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (Desktop) videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 3 month(s) later
  • Around 4% higher core clock speed: 1545 MHz vs 1481 MHz
  • Around 10% higher boost clock speed: 1740 MHz vs 1582 MHz
  • 353.6x more texture fill rate: 125.3 GTexel/s vs 354.4 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 8 nm vs 16 nm
  • 2.8x lower typical power consumption: 90 Watt vs 250 Watt
  • Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 942 vs 937
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 2022 vs 10 March 2017
Core clock speed 1545 MHz vs 1481 MHz
Boost clock speed 1740 MHz vs 1582 MHz
Texture fill rate 125.3 GTexel/s vs 354.4 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 8 nm vs 16 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 90 Watt vs 250 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 942 vs 937

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (Desktop)

  • Around 56% higher pipelines: 3584 vs 2304
  • 2.8x more maximum memory size: 11 GB vs 4 GB
  • 6.3x more memory clock speed: 11008 MHz vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
  • Around 44% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 18598 vs 12873
  • Around 36% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 67670 vs 49885
Specifications (specs)
Pipelines 3584 vs 2304
Maximum memory size 11 GB vs 4 GB
Memory clock speed 11008 MHz vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 18598 vs 12873
Geekbench - OpenCL 67670 vs 49885

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (Desktop)

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
942
937
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
12873
18598
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
49885
67670
Name NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (Desktop)
PassMark - G2D Mark 942 937
PassMark - G3D Mark 12873 18598
Geekbench - OpenCL 49885 67670
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 205.837
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 2406.499
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 19.591
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 25.833
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 1002.573
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 15019
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3716
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3357
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 15019
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3716
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3357
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 2231

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (Desktop)

Essentials

Architecture Ampere Pascal
Code name GA107 GP102
Launch date 2022 10 March 2017
Place in performance rating 88 219
Type Desktop Desktop
Launch price (MSRP) $699
Price now $826.98
Value for money (0-100) 27.48

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1740 MHz 1582 MHz
Core clock speed 1545 MHz 1481 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 8 nm 16 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 125.3 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 8.018 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 8.018 TFLOPS
Pipelines 2304 3584
Pixel fill rate 55.68 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 125.3 GTexel/s 354.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 90 Watt 250 Watt
Floating-point performance 11,340 gflops
Maximum GPU temperature 91 °C
Transistor count 11,800 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
HDMI
G-SYNC support
Multi monitor support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor Dual-slot
Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 242 mm, 9.5 inches 10.5" (26.7 cm)
Recommended system power (PSU) 250 Watt 600 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Width 112 mm, 4.4 inches

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12.0 (12_1)
OpenCL 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.5
Shader Model 6.7
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 11 GB
Memory bandwidth 224.0 GB/s 484.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 bit 352 Bit
Memory clock speed 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective 11008 MHz
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR5X
Shared memory 0

Technologies

3D Vision
Ansel
CUDA
GPU Boost
HDMI 2.0b
PCIe 3.0
SLI
Virtual Reality