NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)

3584 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 2 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 14% (1755MHz vs 1545MHz)

Lower TDP (50W vs 115W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile +111%

18.98 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile

8.986 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile +44%

11909

GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile

8216

Blender

GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile +32%

3812

GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile

2881

OctaneBench

GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile +60%

408

GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile

254

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile +46%

47

GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile

32

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile +22%

83

GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile

68

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile

110

GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile +3%

114

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile +43%

92

GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile

64

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile +43%

92

GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile

64

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile

164

GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile +2%

168

GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile

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GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Jan 2023

GeForce 30 Mobile

Generation

GeForce 40 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1110 MHz

Base Clock

1455 MHz

1545 MHz

Boost Clock

1755 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

96bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

48

SM Count

20

-

Compute Units

-

6144

Shading Units

2560

192

TMUs

80

96

ROPs

48

192

Tensor Cores

80

48

RT Cores

20

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

12 MB

Theoretical Performance

148.3 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

84.24 GPixel/s

296.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

140.4 GTexel/s

18.98 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

8.986 TFLOPS

18.98 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.986 TFLOPS

296.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

140.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

AD107

GA104-775-A1

GPU Variant

GN21-X2

Ampere

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

5 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

18.9 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

159 mm²

Board Design

115W

TDP

50W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

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

8.6

CUDA

8.9

6.6

Shader Model

6.7

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