NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050

Price

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$ 399.00

$ 229.99

$ 169.01 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

6249 points

80% significantly better overall score

3468 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

129 FPS

47 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

82 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

104 FPS

63 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

41 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

82 FPS

23 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

59 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

83 FPS

52 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

31 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

9899 points

59% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

6224 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

861.25 points

1484.67 points

72% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

55628 points

72998 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

61295 points

71667 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

85662 points

52% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

56109 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

68849 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

63483 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

85261 points

36% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

62406 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1480 MHz

1552 MHz

4% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1582 MHz

1777 MHz

12% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

11 GiB

37% slightly more memory

8 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

352 Bit

175% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

484.4 GB/s

116% significantly higher memory bandwidth

224 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W

130 W

92% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

139.2 Gigapixels/s

144% significantly higher pixel rate

56.86 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

354.4 Gigatexels/s

149% significantly higher texture rate

142.2 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

11.34 TFLOPS

24% slightly better floating point performance

9.10 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3584

40% slightly more shading units

2560

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

224

180% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

175% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

77th of 586

139th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 March

2022 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5X

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti vs GeForce RTX 3050 specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 3050 in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 3050 has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce RTX 3050 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti has slightly more memory with 11 GiB of memory compared to 8 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 3050 has a significantly lower TDP at 130 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti at 250 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti over the GeForce RTX 3050.