NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050, 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
5507 points
2% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

124 FPS
135 FPS
11 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

70 FPS
5 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate
66 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

84 FPS
94 FPS
10 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

56 FPS
5 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate
52 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

8047 points
247% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
2317 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1574.05 points
2880.41 points
82% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

90092 points
97092 points
7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

82332 points
91845 points
11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

735 MHz
2317 MHz
215% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1095 MHz
2572 MHz
134% significantly higher boost clock speed

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
20% slightly higher memory bandwidth
320 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
82.3 Gigapixels/s
17% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

201.5 Gigatexels/s
205.8 Gigatexels/s
2% slightly higher texture rate

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
80

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

94th of 586
91st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January
2025 July

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 2080 Max-Q vs GeForce RTX 5050 benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 5050 graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q in our tests.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 5050 over the GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q.

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