NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop

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

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2615 points
13880 points
430% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

64 FPS
317 FPS
254 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

32 FPS
173 FPS
141 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

45 FPS
239 FPS
194 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

25 FPS
136 FPS
111 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1161.74 points
6555.01 points
464% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

51045 points
179169 points
251% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53105 points
164101 points
209% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1238 MHz
26% slightly higher core clock speed
975 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1500 MHz
Identical
1500 MHz

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
896 GB/s
366% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W
6% slightly lower TDP
80 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

33.82 Gigapixels/s
144 Gigapixels/s
325% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

67.65 Gigatexels/s
360 Gigatexels/s
432% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048
7680
274% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

64
240
274% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

32
96
200% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

170th of 586
26th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 May
2025 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
GDDR7

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop vs GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop in our tests.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop over the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop.

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