GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB and GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile - video card comparison

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile

Architecture

Ampere (2020−2022)

Ada Lovelace

GPU code name

Ampere GA102

GN21-X2

Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

January 2022

January 2023

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 12-pin

Boost clock speed

1260 MHz

2370 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

8 nm

5 nm

Number of transistors

28,300 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

8960

2560

Power consumption (TDP)

350 Watt

115 Watt (35 - 115 Watt TGP)

Texture fill rate

478.8

140.4

Memory type

GDDR6X

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

12 GB

6 GB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

96 Bit

Memory clock speed

1710 MHz

16000 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

912.4 GB/s

192.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Portable Device Dependent

HDMI

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.6

8.9

OpenCL

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.6

6.7

Vulkan

1.3