NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 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

7890 points
83% significantly better overall score
4302 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

185 FPS
82 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
104 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

95 FPS
42 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
53 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

132 FPS
56 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
76 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

75 FPS
33 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
41 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

3279.67 points
27% slightly higher Blender score
2581.07 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

113801 points
50% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
75551 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

103840 points
36% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
75827 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1110 MHz
1455 MHz
31% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1545 MHz
1755 MHz
13% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit
166% significantly larger memory bus width
96 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

448 GB/s
133% significantly higher memory bandwidth
192 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

115 W
50 W
129% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

148.3 Gigapixels/s
164% significantly higher pixel rate
56.16 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

296.6 Gigatexels/s
111% significantly higher texture rate
140.4 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

18.98 TFLOPS
111% significantly better floating point performance
8.99 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

6144
139% significantly more shading units
2560

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

192
139% significantly more texture mapping units
80

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

96
200% significantly more render output processors
32

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

59th of 586
117th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January
2023 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop vs GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop has a slightly 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 4050 Laptop also has a slightly 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 4050 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 50 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop at 115 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop is better than the GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop.

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