NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 10 GB 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

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

11627 points

165% significantly better overall score

4386 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

281 FPS

185 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

96 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

141 FPS

78 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

64 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

200 FPS

109 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

91 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

111 FPS

62 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

49 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

4821.52 points

62% significantly higher Blender score

2969.98 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

173309 points

101% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

85838 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

158661 points

98% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

80080 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1440 MHz

41% slightly higher core clock speed

1020 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1710 MHz

13% slightly higher boost clock speed

1500 MHz

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

97% significantly higher memory bandwidth

384 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

320 W

50 W

540% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

164.2 Gigapixels/s

242% significantly higher pixel rate

48 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

465.1 Gigatexels/s

287% significantly higher texture rate

120 Gigatexels/s

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

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 594

115th of 594

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 September

2025 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6X

GDDR7

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 3080 vs GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3080 GPU is faster than the GeForce RTX 5050 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 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 5050 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 50 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3080 at 320 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 is better than the GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop.