NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop 4 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

3523 points
34% slightly better overall score
2615 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

76 FPS
12 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate
64 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

55 FPS
23 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
32 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

55 FPS
10 FPS slightly higher City frame rate
45 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

41 FPS
16 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
25 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1824.37 points
57% significantly higher Blender score
1161.74 points
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

86778 points
48% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
58544 points
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

74397 points
34% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
55123 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

62864 points
33% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
47251 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

76635 points
50% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
51045 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

72004 points
35% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
53105 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

885 MHz
1238 MHz
39% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1185 MHz
1500 MHz
26% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB
100% significantly more memory
4 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

384 GB/s
100% significantly higher memory bandwidth
192 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

80 W
75 W
6% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

75.84 Gigapixels/s
124% significantly higher pixel rate
33.82 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

170.6 Gigatexels/s
152% significantly higher texture rate
67.65 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.46 TFLOPS
26% slightly better floating point performance
4.33 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304
12% slightly more shading units
2048

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144
125% significantly more texture mapping units
64

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

64
100% significantly more render output processors
32

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

137th of 586
170th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January
2021 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q vs GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q GPU is faster than the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop in gaming.

The GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop has a slightly 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 3050 Laptop also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q over the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop.

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