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

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Max-Q 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 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 SUPER Max-Q

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5943 points

126% significantly better overall score

2624 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

136 FPS

71 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

64 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

82 FPS

50 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

32 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

90 FPS

45 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

45 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

57 FPS

32 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

25 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1851.17 points

59% significantly higher Blender score

1161.74 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

104422 points

78% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

58544 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

87462 points

58% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

55123 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

70522 points

49% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

47251 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

93202 points

82% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

51045 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

83136 points

56% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

53105 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

735 MHz

1238 MHz

68% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

975 MHz

1500 MHz

53% significantly 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

352 GB/s

83% significantly higher memory bandwidth

192 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

80 W

75 W

6% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

62.4 Gigapixels/s

84% significantly higher pixel rate

33.82 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

187.2 Gigatexels/s

176% significantly higher texture rate

67.65 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.99 TFLOPS

38% slightly better floating point performance

4.33 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3072

49% significantly more shading units

2048

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

192

200% 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

85th of 597

172nd of 597

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 April

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 SUPER Max-Q vs GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Max-Q graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop in our tests.

The GeForce RTX 3050 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 Laptop also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Max-Q has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop has a slightly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Max-Q at 80 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 Laptop.