NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 10 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

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$ 749.99
$ 229.99
$ 520.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

11608 points
234% significantly better overall score
3468 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

281 FPS
198 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
82 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

141 FPS
100 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
41 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

200 FPS
141 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
59 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

111 FPS
80 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
31 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

17631 points
183% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
6224 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

4821.52 points
224% significantly higher Blender score
1484.67 points
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

206390 points
182% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
72998 points
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

181771 points
153% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
71667 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

126138 points
124% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
56109 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

173309 points
173% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
63483 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

158661 points
154% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
62406 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1440 MHz
1552 MHz
7% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1710 MHz
1777 MHz
3% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

10 GiB
25% slightly more memory
8 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

320 Bit
150% significantly larger memory bus width
128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

760.3 GB/s
239% significantly higher memory bandwidth
224 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

320 W
130 W
146% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

164.2 Gigapixels/s
188% significantly higher pixel rate
56.86 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

465.1 Gigatexels/s
227% significantly higher texture rate
142.2 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

29.77 TFLOPS
227% significantly better floating point performance
9.10 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

8704
239% significantly more shading units
2560

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

272
239% 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

32nd of 586
139th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 September
2022 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6X
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 vs GeForce RTX 3050 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3080 GPU is faster than the GeForce RTX 3050 in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 3050 has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce RTX 3050 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce RTX 3080 has slightly more memory with 10 GiB of memory compared to 8 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 3050 has a significantly lower TDP at 130 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3080 at 320 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 3080 over the GeForce RTX 3050.

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