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

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5387 points

66% significantly better overall score

3236 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

124 FPS

45 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

79 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

70 FPS

30 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

41 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

84 FPS

27 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

57 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

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1574.05 points

18% slightly higher Blender score

1333.84 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

104025 points

56% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

66487 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

87150 points

40% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

62154 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

65188 points

23% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

52643 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

90092 points

53% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

58669 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

82332 points

47% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

55976 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

735 MHz

1222 MHz

66% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1095 MHz

1485 MHz

35% 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

90 W

75 W

20% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

70.08 Gigapixels/s

111% significantly higher pixel rate

33.12 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

201.5 Gigatexels/s

143% significantly higher texture rate

82.8 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.45 TFLOPS

21% slightly better floating point performance

5.30 TFLOPS

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

145th 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

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 Ti Laptop benchmarks

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

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop 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 Ti Laptop also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce RTX 2080 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.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q is faster than the GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop.