NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM 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, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 6 month(s) later
  • Around 17% higher core clock speed: 1515 MHz vs 1290 MHz
  • Around 20% higher boost clock speed: 1755 MHz vs 1468 MHz
  • 538.1x more texture fill rate: 126.4 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 15% lower typical power consumption: 130 Watt vs 150 Watt
  • Around 31% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 965 vs 735
  • Around 4% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 12051 vs 11533
  • Around 33% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 60907 vs 45938
  • Around 4% better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 6242 vs 6008
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 4 Jan 2022 vs 27 June 2017
Core clock speed 1515 MHz vs 1290 MHz
Boost clock speed 1755 MHz vs 1468 MHz
Texture fill rate 126.4 GTexel/s vs 234.9 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 8 nm vs 16 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 130 Watt vs 150 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 965 vs 735
PassMark - G3D Mark 12051 vs 11533
Geekbench - OpenCL 60907 vs 45938
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 6242 vs 6008

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q

  • Around 11% higher pipelines: 2560 vs 2304
  • 5.7x more memory clock speed: 10008 MHz vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
Pipelines 2560 vs 2304
Memory clock speed 10008 MHz vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective

Compare benchmarks

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

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
965
735
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
12051
11533
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
60907
45938
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score
GPU 1
GPU 2
6242
6008
Name NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q
PassMark - G2D Mark 965 735
PassMark - G3D Mark 12051 11533
Geekbench - OpenCL 60907 45938
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 6242 6008
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 207.741
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 2522.737
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 19.08
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 87.152
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 806.848
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

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q

Essentials

Architecture Ampere Pascal
Code name GA106 GP104
Launch date 4 Jan 2022 27 June 2017
Place in performance rating 181 180
Type Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1755 MHz 1468 MHz
Core clock speed 1515 MHz 1290 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 8 nm 16 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 126.4 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 8.087 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 8.087 TFLOPS
Pipelines 2304 2560
Pixel fill rate 56.16 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 126.4 GTexel/s 234.9 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 130 Watt 150 Watt
Transistor count 12000 million 7,200 million
Floating-point performance 7,516 gflops

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a No outputs
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) 300 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 1x 8-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 8 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