NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 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

5387 points

55% significantly better overall score

3468 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

124 FPS

41 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

82 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

70 FPS

29 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

41 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

84 FPS

25 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

59 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

56 FPS

25 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

31 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

8047 points

29% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

6224 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1574.05 points

6% slightly higher Blender score

1484.67 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

104025 points

42% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

72998 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

87150 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

71667 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

65188 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

56109 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

90092 points

41% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

63483 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

82332 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

62406 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

735 MHz

1552 MHz

111% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1095 MHz

1777 MHz

62% significantly 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

384 GB/s

71% significantly higher memory bandwidth

224 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

90 W

44% significantly lower TDP

130 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

70.08 Gigapixels/s

23% slightly higher pixel rate

56.86 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

201.5 Gigatexels/s

41% slightly higher texture rate

142.2 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.45 TFLOPS

9.10 TFLOPS

41% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2944

15% slightly more shading units

2560

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

184

129% 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

94th of 586

139th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January

2022 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q vs GeForce RTX 3050 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q beats the GeForce RTX 3050 in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 3050 has a significantly 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 significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, they both have the same amount of memory at 8 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 90 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3050 at 130 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q over the GeForce RTX 3050.