NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 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

3375 points

3468 points

2% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

61 FPS

82 FPS

21 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

55 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

41 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

46 FPS

59 FPS

13 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

42 FPS

11 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

31 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

5999 points

6224 points

3% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

558.71 points

1484.67 points

165% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

46955 points

72998 points

55% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

46870 points

71667 points

52% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

58341 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

56109 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

49707 points

63483 points

27% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

58341 points

62406 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1468 MHz

1552 MHz

5% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1468 MHz

1777 MHz

21% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

Identical

8 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

320.3 GB/s

42% significantly higher memory bandwidth

224 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

110 W

18% slightly lower TDP

130 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

93.95 Gigapixels/s

65% significantly higher pixel rate

56.86 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

234.9 Gigatexels/s

65% significantly higher texture rate

142.2 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

7.52 TFLOPS

9.10 TFLOPS

21% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

Identical

2560

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160

100% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

141st of 586

139th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 June

2022 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5X

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.1

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q vs GeForce RTX 3050 comparison

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3050 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 3050 has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce RTX 3050 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, they both have the same amount of memory at 8 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q has a slightly lower TDP at 110 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3050 at 130 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 3050 is faster than the GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q.