NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 9 month(s) later
  • Around 20% higher core clock speed: 1545 MHz vs 1290 MHz
  • Around 19% higher boost clock speed: 1740 MHz vs 1468 MHz
  • 533.4x more texture fill rate: 125.3 GTexel/s vs 234.9 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 8 nm vs 16 nm
  • Around 67% lower typical power consumption: 90 Watt vs 150 Watt
  • Around 29% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 941 vs 731
  • Around 12% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 12847 vs 11482
  • Around 9% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 50078 vs 45938
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 2022 vs 27 June 2017
Core clock speed 1545 MHz vs 1290 MHz
Boost clock speed 1740 MHz vs 1468 MHz
Texture fill rate 125.3 GTexel/s vs 234.9 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 8 nm vs 16 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 90 Watt vs 150 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 941 vs 731
PassMark - G3D Mark 12847 vs 11482
Geekbench - OpenCL 50078 vs 45938

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q

  • Around 11% higher pipelines: 2560 vs 2304
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 4 GB
  • 5.7x more memory clock speed: 10008 MHz vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
Pipelines 2560 vs 2304
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 4 GB
Memory clock speed 10008 MHz vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
941
731
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
12847
11482
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
50078
45938
Name NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q
PassMark - G2D Mark 941 731
PassMark - G3D Mark 12847 11482
Geekbench - OpenCL 50078 45938
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 17105
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 5581
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3360
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 17105
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 5581
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3360
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 6008

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q

Essentials

Architecture Ampere Pascal
Code name GA107 GP104
Launch date 2022 27 June 2017
Place in performance rating 79 182
Type Desktop Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1740 MHz 1468 MHz
Core clock speed 1545 MHz 1290 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 8 nm 16 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 125.3 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 8.018 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 8.018 TFLOPS
Pipelines 2304 2560
Pixel fill rate 55.68 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 125.3 GTexel/s 234.9 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 90 Watt 150 Watt
Floating-point performance 7,516 gflops
Transistor count 7,200 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a No outputs
DisplayPort support
HDMI
G-SYNC support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor Dual-slot
Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 242 mm, 9.5 inches
Recommended system power (PSU) 250 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin None
Width 112 mm, 4.4 inches
Laptop size large

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12.0 (12_1)
OpenCL 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Shader Model 6.7
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 8 GB
Memory bandwidth 224.0 GB/s 320.3 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective 10008 MHz
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR5X
Shared memory 0

Technologies

Multi Monitor
Multi-Projection
VR Ready