NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop, 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 4050 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5387 points

25% slightly better overall score

4302 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

124 FPS

20 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

104 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

70 FPS

17 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

53 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

84 FPS

8 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

76 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

56 FPS

15 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

41 FPS

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1574.05 points

2581.07 points

63% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

90092 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

75551 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

82332 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

75827 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

735 MHz

1455 MHz

97% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1095 MHz

1755 MHz

60% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

166% significantly larger memory bus width

96 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

50 W

79% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

70.08 Gigapixels/s

24% slightly higher pixel rate

56.16 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

201.5 Gigatexels/s

43% significantly higher texture rate

140.4 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.45 TFLOPS

8.99 TFLOPS

39% 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

117th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January

2023 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 4050 Laptop comparison

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 4050 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 4050 Laptop also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 50 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q at 90 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q is faster than the GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop.