NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop, 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 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

7964 points

81% significantly better overall score

4386 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

186 FPS

93 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

93 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

95 FPS

32 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

64 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

133 FPS

43 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

90 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

75 FPS

26 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

49 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

3279.67 points

10% slightly higher Blender score

2969.98 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

113801 points

32% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

85838 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

103840 points

29% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

80080 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1110 MHz

8% slightly higher core clock speed

1020 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1545 MHz

3% slightly higher boost clock speed

1500 MHz

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

16% slightly higher memory bandwidth

384 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

208% significantly higher pixel rate

48 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

296.6 Gigatexels/s

147% significantly higher texture rate

120 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 599

115th of 599

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January

2025 June

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 3080 Laptop vs GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop GPU is faster than the GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop in gaming.

The GeForce RTX 3080 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 3080 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 5050 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 50 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop at 115 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop is better than the GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop.