NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), 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.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 7 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 8 nm vs 12 nm
7.1x lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 250 Watt

Launch date	11 May 2021 vs 20 September 2018
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm vs 12 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt vs 250 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti

Around 90% higher core clock speed: 1350 MHz vs 712 MHz
Around 46% higher boost clock speed: 1545 MHz vs 1057 MHz
10.2x more memory clock speed: 14000 MHz vs 1375 MHz, 11 Gbps effective

Core clock speed	1350 MHz vs 712 MHz
Boost clock speed	1545 MHz vs 1057 MHz
Memory clock speed	14000 MHz vs 1375 MHz, 11 Gbps effective

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti

Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
PassMark - G3D Mark		21601
PassMark - G2D Mark		928
Geekbench - OpenCL		134929
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		394.035
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		5461.22
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		41.104
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		174.185
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		1987.605
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		23659
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3718
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3358
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		23659
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3718
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3358
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		3537

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
Essentials
Architecture	Ampere	Turing
Code name	GA107	TU102
Launch date	11 May 2021	20 September 2018
Place in performance rating	not rated	91
Launch price (MSRP)		$999
Price now		$1,279.99
Type		Desktop
Value for money (0-100)		17.22
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1057 MHz	1545 MHz
Core clock speed	712 MHz	1350 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	12 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	67.65 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	4.329 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	4.329 TFLOPS
Pipelines	2048
Pixel fill rate	33.82 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	67.65 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt	250 Watt
Transistor count		18,600 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	Portable Device Dependent	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	IGP
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	2x 8-pin
Length		267 mm
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
Memory bandwidth	176.0 GB/s
Memory bus width	128 bit
Memory clock speed	1375 MHz, 11 Gbps effective	14000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6