NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2615 points

11108 points

324% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

64 FPS

285 FPS

221 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

32 FPS

140 FPS

108 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

45 FPS

193 FPS

148 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

25 FPS

110 FPS

86 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1161.74 points

5482.15 points

371% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

51045 points

159842 points

213% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53105 points

145828 points

174% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1238 MHz

1290 MHz

4% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1500 MHz

1665 MHz

11% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

192 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

192 GB/s

432 GB/s

125% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

46% significantly lower TDP

110 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

33.82 Gigapixels/s

133.2 Gigapixels/s

293% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

67.65 Gigatexels/s

386.3 Gigatexels/s

471% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.33 TFLOPS

24.72 TFLOPS

471% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

7424

262% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

232

262% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

150% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

170th of 586

34th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 May

2023 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 3050 Laptop vs GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop in our tests.

The GeForce RTX 4080 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 4080 Laptop also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop at 110 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 4080 Laptop over the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop.