NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 6 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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$ 408.96

$ 229.99

$ 178.97 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1799 points

3468 points

92% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

37 FPS

82 FPS

46 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

26 FPS

41 FPS

15 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

26 FPS

59 FPS

33 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

22 FPS

31 FPS

10 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2833 points

6224 points

119% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

311.05 points

1484.67 points

377% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

18049 points

72998 points

304% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

21004 points

71667 points

241% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

21940 points

56109 points

155% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

23273 points

63483 points

172% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

24865 points

62406 points

150% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

863 MHz

1552 MHz

79% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

902 MHz

1777 MHz

97% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

8 GiB

33% slightly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

384 Bit

200% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

288.4 GB/s

28% slightly 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

43.3 Gigapixels/s

56.86 Gigapixels/s

31% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

173.2 Gigatexels/s

21% slightly higher texture rate

142.2 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.16 TFLOPS

9.10 TFLOPS

118% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304

2560

11% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

192

139% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

221st of 586

139th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 May

2022 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

11.0

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 780 vs GeForce RTX 3050 comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3050 beats the GeForce GTX 780 in gaming performance.

The GeForce RTX 3050 has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce RTX 3050 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce RTX 3050 has slightly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 6 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 3050 has a significantly lower TDP at 130 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 780 at 250 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 3050 is faster than the GeForce GTX 780.