GeForce RTX 4090 and GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 4 GB - video card comparison

GeForce RTX 4090

GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 4 GB

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

AD102-300-A1

GA107

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

September 2022

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x8

Supplementary power connectors

1x 16-pin

None

Boost clock speed

2520 MHz

1207 MHz

Core clock speed

2235 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

5 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

76,300 million

8,700 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

16384

2048

Power consumption (TDP)

450 Watt

35 Watt

Texture fill rate

1,290

77.25

Memory type

GDDR6X

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

24 GB

4 GB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

21000 MHz

12 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

1,008 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

8.9

8.6

OpenCL

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.6

6.7

Vulkan

1.3