NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max Q vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 4 GB
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 Max Q and 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 4 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max Q 's Advantages
More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)
896 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 4 GB 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 3% (1125MHz vs 1095MHz)
Lower TDP (35W vs 80W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 2080 Max Q
+39%
6.447 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 4 GB
4.608 TFLOPS
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
757 MHz
1095 MHz
Boost Clock
1125 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
384.0GB/s
Bandwidth
176.0GB/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
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-
-
Theoretical Performance
70.08 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
36.00 GPixel/s
201.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
72.00 GTexel/s
12.89 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
4.608 TFLOPS
6.447 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.608 TFLOPS
201.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
72.00 GFLOPS
Board Design
80W
TDP
35W
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-
-
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
