NVIDIA A30 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA A30 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB 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: Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA A30

  • 2.6x more texture fill rate: 322.6 GTexel/s vs 125.3 GTexel/s
  • Around 56% higher pipelines: 3584 vs 2304
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 8 nm
  • 6x more maximum memory size: 24 GB vs 4 GB
  • 2.5x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 127071 vs 49885
Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate 322.6 GTexel/s vs 125.3 GTexel/s
Pipelines 3584 vs 2304
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm vs 8 nm
Maximum memory size 24 GB vs 4 GB
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 127071 vs 49885

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 4 month(s) later
  • Around 66% higher core clock speed: 1545 MHz vs 930 MHz
  • Around 21% higher boost clock speed: 1740 MHz vs 1440 MHz
  • Around 83% lower typical power consumption: 90 Watt vs 165 Watt
  • Around 44% higher memory clock speed: 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective vs 1215 MHz, 2.4 Gbps effective
Launch date 2022 vs 12 Apr 2021
Core clock speed 1545 MHz vs 930 MHz
Boost clock speed 1740 MHz vs 1440 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 90 Watt vs 165 Watt
Memory clock speed 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective vs 1215 MHz, 2.4 Gbps effective

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA A30
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB

Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
127071
49885
Name NVIDIA A30 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB
Geekbench - OpenCL 127071 49885
PassMark - G2D Mark 942
PassMark - G3D Mark 12873

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA A30 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB

Essentials

Architecture Ampere Ampere
Code name GA100 GA107
Launch date 12 Apr 2021 2022
Place in performance rating 99 88
Type Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1440 MHz 1740 MHz
Core clock speed 930 MHz 1545 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm 8 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 5.161 TFLOPS (1:2) 125.3 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 10.32 TFLOPS (1:1) 8.018 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 10.32 TFLOPS 8.018 TFLOPS
Pipelines 3584 2304
Pixel fill rate 138.2 GPixel/s 55.68 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 322.6 GTexel/s 125.3 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 165 Watt 90 Watt
Transistor count 54200 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
DisplayPort support
HDMI

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor Dual-slot Dual-slot
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x8
Length 267 mm, 10.5 inches 242 mm, 9.5 inches
Recommended system power (PSU) 450 Watt 250 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 8-pin EPS 1x 6-pin
Width 112 mm, 4.4 inches 112 mm, 4.4 inches

API support

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

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 24 GB 4 GB
Memory bandwidth 933.1 GB/s 224.0 GB/s
Memory bus width 3072 bit 128 bit
Memory clock speed 1215 MHz, 2.4 Gbps effective 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
Memory type HBM2e GDDR6