NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 10 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1057 points

11608 points

998% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

24 FPS

281 FPS

257 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

16 FPS

141 FPS

125 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

16 FPS

200 FPS

184 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

12 FPS

111 FPS

99 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2108 points

17631 points

736% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

169.72 points

4821.52 points

2740% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

15058 points

206390 points

1270% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

17020 points

181771 points

967% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

16857 points

126138 points

648% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

16153 points

173309 points

972% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17923 points

158661 points

785% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

999 MHz

1440 MHz

44% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1139 MHz

1710 MHz

50% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

10 GiB

150% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

320 Bit

150% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

112.1 GB/s

760.3 GB/s

578% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

326% significantly lower TDP

320 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

18.22 Gigapixels/s

164.2 Gigapixels/s

801% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

45.56 Gigatexels/s

465.1 Gigatexels/s

920% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

640

8704

1259% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

272

580% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

499% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

260th of 586

32nd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 January

2020 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6X

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q vs GeForce RTX 3080 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3080 beats the GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 3080 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 3080 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 3080 has significantly more memory with 10 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3080 at 320 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 3080 over the GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q.