NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8GB

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8GB videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation

  • 2.7x more texture fill rate: 386.3 GTexel/s vs 142.2 GTexel/s
  • 2.9x more pipelines: 7424 vs 2560
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 8 nm
  • Around 18% lower typical power consumption: 110 Watt vs 130 Watt
  • Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 12 GB vs 8 GB
  • Around 29% higher memory clock speed: 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
  • Around 80% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 23017 vs 12807
Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate 386.3 GTexel/s vs 142.2 GTexel/s
Pipelines 7424 vs 2560
Manufacturing process technology 5 nm vs 8 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 110 Watt vs 130 Watt
Maximum memory size 12 GB vs 8 GB
Memory clock speed 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 23017 vs 12807

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8GB

  • Around 20% higher core clock speed: 1552 MHz vs 1290 MHz
  • Around 7% higher boost clock speed: 1777 MHz vs 1665 MHz
  • Around 25% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 932 vs 743
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1552 MHz vs 1290 MHz
Boost clock speed 1777 MHz vs 1665 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 932 vs 743

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8GB

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
743
932
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
23017
12807
Name NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8GB
PassMark - G2D Mark 743 932
PassMark - G3D Mark 23017 12807
Geekbench - OpenCL 146869

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8GB

Essentials

Architecture Ada Lovelace Ampere
Code name AD104 GA106
Place in performance rating 41 43
Launch date 4 Jan 2022

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1665 MHz 1777 MHz
Core clock speed 1290 MHz 1552 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 5 nm 8 nm
Pipelines 7424 2560
Pixel fill rate 133.2 GPixel/s 56.86 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 386.3 GTexel/s 142.2 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 110 Watt 130 Watt
Transistor count 35800 million 12000 million
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 142.2 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 9.098 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 9.098 TFLOPS

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors Portable Device Dependent 1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor IGP Dual-slot
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors None 1x 8-pin
Length 242 mm, 9.5 inches
Recommended system power (PSU) 300 Watt
Width 112 mm, 4.4 inches

API support

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

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 12 GB 8 GB
Memory bandwidth 432.0 GB/s 224.0 GB/s
Memory bus width 192 bit 128 bit
Memory clock speed 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR6