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

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 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 5050 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5387 points

13% slightly better overall score

4766 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

124 FPS

23 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

101 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

70 FPS

8 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

63 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

84 FPS

89 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

56 FPS

8 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

48 FPS

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1574.05 points

2969.98 points

88% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

90092 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

85838 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

82332 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

80080 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

735 MHz

1020 MHz

38% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1095 MHz

1500 MHz

36% slightly 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

Identical

384 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

46% significantly higher pixel rate

48 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

201.5 Gigatexels/s

67% significantly higher texture rate

120 Gigatexels/s

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

107th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January

2025 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR7

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 5050 Laptop benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q GPU is faster than the GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop in gaming.

The GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop has a slightly 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 5050 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.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 50 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q at 90 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q is faster than the GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop.