NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4050 Max Q and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 9% (1605MHz vs 1468MHz)

Lower TDP (35W vs 150W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.3GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4050 Max Q +9%

8.218 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q

7.516 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4050 Max Q

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GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q

Graphics Card

Jan 2023

Release Date

Jun 2017

GeForce 40 Mobile

Generation

GeForce 10 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1140 MHz

Base Clock

1290 MHz

1605 MHz

Boost Clock

1468 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1251 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5X

96bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

320.3GB/s

Render Config

20

SM Count

20

-

Compute Units

-

2560

Shading Units

2560

80

TMUs

160

48

ROPs

64

80

Tensor Cores

-

20

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

12 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

77.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

93.95 GPixel/s

128.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

234.9 GTexel/s

8.218 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

117.4 GFLOPS

8.218 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.516 TFLOPS

128.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

234.9 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD107

GPU Name

GP104

GN21-X2

GPU Variant

N17E-G3-A1

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

16 nm

Unknown

Transistors

7.2 billion

146 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Board Design

35W

TDP

150W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.9

CUDA

6.1

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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