NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Max-Q

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 10 month(s) later
  • 4.3x more core clock speed: 2505 MHz vs 585 MHz
  • 2.3x more boost clock speed: 2640 MHz vs 1125 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 4 nm vs 8 nm
  • Around 50% higher memory clock speed: 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective vs 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective
Launch date 2023 vs 25 Jan 2022
Core clock speed 2505 MHz vs 585 MHz
Boost clock speed 2640 MHz vs 1125 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 4 nm vs 8 nm
Memory clock speed 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective vs 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Max-Q

  • Around 24% higher texture fill rate: 261.0 GTexel/s vs 211.2 GTexel/s
  • 2.9x more pipelines: 7424 vs 2560
  • Around 88% lower typical power consumption: 80 Watt vs 150 Watt
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 16 GB vs 8 GB
Texture fill rate 261.0 GTexel/s vs 211.2 GTexel/s
Pipelines 7424 vs 2560
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 80 Watt vs 150 Watt
Maximum memory size 16 GB vs 8 GB

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Max-Q

Essentials

Architecture Ada Lovelace Ampere
Code name AD106 GA103
Launch date 2023 25 Jan 2022
Place in performance rating not rated not rated

Technical info

Boost clock speed 2640 MHz 1125 MHz
Core clock speed 2505 MHz 585 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 4 nm 8 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 211.2 GFLOPS (1:64) 261.0 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 13.52 TFLOPS (1:1) 16.70 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 13.52 TFLOPS 16.70 TFLOPS
Pipelines 2560 7424
Pixel fill rate 84.48 GPixel/s 108.0 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 211.2 GTexel/s 261.0 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 Watt 80 Watt

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a Portable Device Dependent

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor Dual-slot
Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 4.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU) 450 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 1x 12-pin None

API support

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

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 16 GB
Memory bandwidth 288.0 GB/s 384.0 GB/s
Memory bus width 128 bit 256 bit
Memory clock speed 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR6

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