NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 16 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

Benchmark Score
Other Benchmarks
Specifications
Comments (0)
Popular Comparisons

GPU Comparison

Quickly search and compare graphics cards

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2615 points

24107 points

821% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

64 FPS

560 FPS

497 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

32 FPS

277 FPS

245 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

45 FPS

407 FPS

361 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

25 FPS

226 FPS

201 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

Free GPU Benchmark

Want to compare your graphics card against the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop and the GeForce RTX 5080? Download our free and quick PC Performance Test.

Download GPU Benchmark

Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1161.74 points

9133.30 points

686% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

51045 points

267906 points

424% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53105 points

257198 points

384% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1238 MHz

2295 MHz

85% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1500 MHz

2617 MHz

74% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

16 GiB

300% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

192 GB/s

960 GB/s

400% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

380% significantly lower TDP

360 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

33.82 Gigapixels/s

293.1 Gigapixels/s

766% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

67.65 Gigatexels/s

879.3 Gigatexels/s

1199% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.33 TFLOPS

56.28 TFLOPS

1200% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

10752

424% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

336

424% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

112

250% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

170th of 586

4th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 May

2025 January

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 3050 Laptop vs GeForce RTX 5080 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 5080 GPU is faster than the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop in gaming.

The GeForce RTX 5080 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 5080 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce RTX 5080 has significantly more memory with 16 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 5080 at 360 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 5080 is better than the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop.