Component comparison

GeForce RTX 3050 vs GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

GeForce RTX 3050 vs GeForce RTX 3080 Ti — detailed GPU comparison: performance, gaming FPS, specifications.

Advantages

A GeForce RTX 3050
  • + Die size (mm²) (+428 mm²)
  • + Energy efficiency (+2.8)
B GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
  • + VRAM (GB) (+8 GB)
  • + Bandwidth (GB/s) (+720 GB/s)
  • + Memory bus (bit) (+256 bit)
  • + Transistors (M) (+19,600M)
  • + CUDA cores (+8192)
  • + TMUs (+256)
  • + ROPs (+80)
  • + RT cores (+64)
  • + Tensor cores (+256)
  • + FP32 performance (TFLOPS) (+28.60 TFLOPS)
  • + Pixel fill rate (GPixel/s) (+143.52 GPixel/s)
  • + Texture fill rate (GTexel/s) (+446.85 GTexel/s)
  • + PassMark (overall) (+14882)
  • + 3DMark Fire Strike (+35164)
  • + Geekbench OpenCL (+145616)
  • + Normalized score (+3.2)

Detailed spec comparison

Spec Component A
GeForce RTX 3050
Component B
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
Release year 2021 2021
VRAM (GB) 4 GB 12 GB (+8 GB)
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR6X
Memory clock (MHz) 1500 MHz —
Bandwidth (GB/s) 192 GB/s 912 GB/s (+720 GB/s)
Memory bus (bit) 128 bit 384 bit (+256 bit)
TGP / TDP (W) 75 W —
Lithography (nm) 8 nm 8 nm
Transistors (M) 8,700M 28,300M (+19,600M)
Die size (mm²) 200 mm² (+428 mm²) 628 mm²
Base clock (MHz) 1065 MHz —
Boost clock (MHz) 1343 MHz —
CUDA cores 2,048 10,240 (+8192)
TMUs 64 320 (+256)
ROPs 32 112 (+80)
RT cores 16 80 (+64)
Tensor cores 64 320 (+256)
FP32 performance (TFLOPS) 5.50 TFLOPS 34.10 TFLOPS (+28.60 TFLOPS)
Pixel fill rate (GPixel/s) 42.98 GPixel/s 186.50 GPixel/s (+143.52 GPixel/s)
Texture fill rate (GTexel/s) 85.95 GTexel/s 532.80 GTexel/s (+446.85 GTexel/s)
Energy efficiency 17.0 (+2.8) 14.2
PassMark (overall) 11,878 26,760 (+14882)
3DMark Time Spy 4,497 —
3DMark Fire Strike 11,949 47,113 (+35164)
Geekbench OpenCL 63,465 209,081 (+145616)
Geekbench Vulkan 62,164 —
Normalized score 63.1 66.3 (+3.2)

Only in component B

CUDA DLSS ray_tracing

In both

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FPS in games (1080p)

Game GeForce RTX 3050 GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Delta
Assassin's Creed Mirage 55 FPS 109 FPS 98.2% (B)
Avatar Frontiers of Pandora 32 FPS 73 FPS 128.1% (B)
Baldur's Gate 3 45 FPS 111 FPS 146.7% (B)
Battlefield 5 93 FPS 170 FPS 82.8% (B)
CS:GO 240 FPS 240 FPS ≈
Counter-Strike 2 170 FPS 300 FPS 76.5% (B)
Cyberpunk 2077 66 FPS 219 FPS 231.8% (B)
Cyberpunk 2077 1.6 46 FPS 64 FPS 39.1% (B)
Dota 2 118 FPS 234 FPS 98.3% (B)
F1 2021 105 FPS 182 FPS 73.3% (B)
F1 22 86 FPS 172 FPS 100% (B)
F1 23 87 FPS 193 FPS 121.8% (B)
Far Cry 5 68 FPS 208 FPS 205.9% (B)
Final Fantasy XV Benchmark 44 FPS 31 FPS +41.9% (A)
Fortnite 110 FPS 300 FPS 172.7% (B)
Forza Horizon 4 90 FPS 250 FPS 177.8% (B)
Forza Horizon 5 87 FPS 200 FPS 129.9% (B)
GTA V 140 FPS 140 FPS ≈
GTA V 95 FPS 153 FPS 61.1% (B)
Metro Exodus 49 FPS 172 FPS 251% (B)
Overwatch 240 FPS 240 FPS ≈
PUBG 140 FPS 140 FPS ≈
Resident Evil 4 Remake 50 FPS 190 FPS 280% (B)
Returnal 34 FPS 114 FPS 235.3% (B)
The Witcher 3 81 FPS 372 FPS 359.3% (B)
The Witcher 3 71 FPS 144 FPS 102.8% (B)
Tiny Tina's Wonderlands 56 FPS 124 FPS 121.4% (B)
Valorant 150 FPS 350 FPS 133.3% (B)
X-Plane 11.11 62 FPS 33 FPS +87.9% (A)

Specs from public sources (PassMark, Geekbench). FPS measured at 1080p medium settings.

Based on the comparison: GeForce RTX 3080 Ti wins 16 of the comparable criteria. The choice depends on your use case.

🤔 How to choose

Universal advice for any use case.

  • Reliability vs price: reliability (median 50) ↔ price (median 385.1).
  • Weight vs CPU: mobility (median 48) ↔ overall performance (median 49.8).
  • Upgradeability vs battery: upgradability (median 50) ↔ battery life (median 2.8).