NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

19480 points

352% significantly better overall score

4302 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

480 FPS

376 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

104 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

226 FPS

173 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

53 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

334 FPS

258 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

76 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

183 FPS

141 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

41 FPS

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

8733.11 points

238% significantly higher Blender score

2581.07 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

241464 points

219% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

75551 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

217807 points

187% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

75827 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

2025 MHz

39% slightly higher core clock speed

1455 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2375 MHz

35% slightly higher boost clock speed

1755 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

166% significantly larger memory bus width

96 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

678.4 GB/s

253% significantly higher memory bandwidth

192 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

420 W

50 W

740% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

228 Gigapixels/s

305% significantly higher pixel rate

56.16 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

760 Gigatexels/s

441% significantly higher texture rate

140.4 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

48.64 TFLOPS

441% significantly better floating point performance

8.99 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

10240

300% significantly more shading units

2560

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

320

300% 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

9th of 586

117th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 September

2023 January

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 4080 vs GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 4080 beats the GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 4080 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 4080 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 4050 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 50 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 4080 at 420 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 4080 is better than the GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop.