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

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER 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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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Max-Q

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5758 points

66% significantly better overall score

3468 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

132 FPS

49 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

82 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

79 FPS

38 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

41 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

87 FPS

28 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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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

8470 points

36% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

6224 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1851.17 points

24% slightly higher Blender score

1484.67 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

104422 points

43% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

72998 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

87462 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

71667 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

70522 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

56109 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

93202 points

46% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

63483 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

83136 points

33% 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

975 MHz

1777 MHz

82% 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

352 GB/s

57% significantly higher memory bandwidth

224 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

80 W

62% significantly lower TDP

130 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

62.4 Gigapixels/s

9% slightly higher pixel rate

56.86 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

187.2 Gigatexels/s

31% slightly higher texture rate

142.2 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.99 TFLOPS

9.10 TFLOPS

51% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3072

20% slightly more shading units

2560

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

192

139% 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

87th of 586

139th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 April

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 SUPER Max-Q vs GeForce RTX 3050 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Max-Q GPU is faster than the GeForce RTX 3050 in gaming.

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.

As stated by the manufacturer, 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 SUPER Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 80 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 SUPER Max-Q over the GeForce RTX 3050.