NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080

Price

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$ 229.99

$ 1070.00 significantly less expensive

$ 1299.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3468 points

19480 points

461% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

82 FPS

480 FPS

397 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

41 FPS

226 FPS

185 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

59 FPS

334 FPS

275 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

31 FPS

183 FPS

151 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

6224 points

6585 points

5% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1484.67 points

8733.11 points

488% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

63483 points

241464 points

280% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

62406 points

217807 points

249% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1552 MHz

2025 MHz

30% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1777 MHz

2375 MHz

33% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

16 GiB

100% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224 GB/s

678.4 GB/s

202% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

130 W

223% significantly lower TDP

420 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

56.86 Gigapixels/s

228 Gigapixels/s

300% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

142.2 Gigatexels/s

760 Gigatexels/s

434% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

9.10 TFLOPS

48.64 TFLOPS

434% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

10240

300% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

320

300% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

200% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

139th of 586

9th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 January

2022 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR6X

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 3050 vs GeForce RTX 4080 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 4080 GPU is faster than the GeForce RTX 3050 in gaming.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 4080 has a slightly 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 4080 also has a slightly 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 4080 has significantly more memory with 16 GiB of memory compared to 8 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 3050 has a significantly lower TDP at 130 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 4080 at 420 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 4080 is faster than the GeForce RTX 3050.

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