GeForce RTX 2080 Max Q vs GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 6 GB
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 Max Q and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 6 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 2080 Max Q 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 11% (1095MHz vs 990MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 144.0GB/s)
896 additional rendering cores
GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 6 GB 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 6 months late
Lower TDP (35W vs 80W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 2080 Max Q
+58%
6447
GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 6 GB
4055
Graphics Card
Jan 2019
Release Date
Jul 2022
GeForce 20 Mobile
Generation
GeForce 30 Mobile
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
735 MHz
Base Clock
622 MHz
1095 MHz
Boost Clock
990 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
6GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
96bit
384.0GB/s
Bandwidth
144.0GB/s
Render Config
46
SM Count
16
2944
Shading Units
2048
184
TMUs
64
64
ROPs
32
368
Tensor Cores
64
46
RT Cores
16
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
4 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
70.08 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
31.68 GPixel/s
201.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
63.36 GTexel/s
12.89 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
4.055 TFLOPS
6.447 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.055 TFLOPS
201.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
63.36 GFLOPS
Board Design
80W
TDP
35W
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
TU104
GPU Name
GA107
N18E-G3-A1
GPU Variant
-
Turing
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
12 nm
Process Size
8 nm
13.6 billion
Transistors
8.7 billion
545 mm²
Die Size
200 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
7.5
CUDA
8.6
6.6
Shader Model
6.7
