NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 10 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

11608 points

343% significantly better overall score

2615 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

281 FPS

217 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

64 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

141 FPS

109 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

32 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

200 FPS

154 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

45 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

111 FPS

86 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

25 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

4821.52 points

315% significantly higher Blender score

1161.74 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

206390 points

252% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

58544 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

181771 points

229% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

55123 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

126138 points

166% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

47251 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

173309 points

239% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

51045 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

158661 points

198% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

53105 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1440 MHz

16% slightly higher core clock speed

1238 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1710 MHz

13% slightly higher boost clock speed

1500 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

10 GiB

150% significantly more memory

4 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

295% significantly higher memory bandwidth

192 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

320 W

75 W

326% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

164.2 Gigapixels/s

385% significantly higher pixel rate

33.82 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

465.1 Gigatexels/s

587% significantly higher texture rate

67.65 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

29.77 TFLOPS

587% significantly better floating point performance

4.33 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

8704

325% significantly more shading units

2048

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

272

325% 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

32nd of 586

170th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 September

2021 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6X

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 3080 vs GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop comparison

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

The GeForce RTX 3080 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 3080 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce RTX 3080 has significantly more memory with 10 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

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