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

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER 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 SUPER Max-Q

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5943 points

38% slightly better overall score

4302 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

136 FPS

41 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

95 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

82 FPS

18 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

64 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

90 FPS

91 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

57 FPS

8 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

50 FPS

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1851.17 points

2969.98 points

60% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

93202 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

85838 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

83136 points

3% 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

975 MHz

1500 MHz

53% 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

352 GB/s

384 GB/s

9% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

80 W

50 W

60% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

62.4 Gigapixels/s

30% slightly higher pixel rate

48 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

187.2 Gigatexels/s

56% significantly higher texture rate

120 Gigatexels/s

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

84th of 594

117th of 594

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 April

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 SUPER Max-Q vs GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop benchmarks

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

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop also has a significantly 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 SUPER Max-Q at 80 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Max-Q is better than the GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop.