NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

7964 points

42% slightly better overall score

5591 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

186 FPS

51 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

135 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

95 FPS

29 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

66 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

133 FPS

38 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

95 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

75 FPS

23 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

52 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

3279.67 points

13% slightly higher Blender score

2880.41 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

113801 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

97092 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

103840 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

91845 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1110 MHz

2317 MHz

108% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1545 MHz

2572 MHz

66% 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

448 GB/s

40% slightly higher memory bandwidth

320 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

115 W

13% slightly lower TDP

130 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

148.3 Gigapixels/s

80% significantly higher pixel rate

82.3 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

296.6 Gigatexels/s

44% significantly higher texture rate

205.8 Gigatexels/s

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

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

200% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

55th of 597

91st of 597

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January

2025 July

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 3080 Laptop vs GeForce RTX 5050 specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 5050 in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 5050 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 5050 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop has a slightly lower TDP at 115 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 5050 at 130 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 3080 Laptop over the GeForce RTX 5050.