NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 A Mobile

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 A Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q and 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 A Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 9% (1468MHz vs 1343MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

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

768 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 A Mobile 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 7 months late

Lower TDP (45W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q +56%

7.516 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 A Mobile

4.813 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q

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GeForce RTX 3050 A Mobile

Graphics Card

Jun 2017

Release Date

Jan 2024

GeForce 10 Mobile

Generation

GeForce 30 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1290 MHz

Base Clock

1065 MHz

1468 MHz

Boost Clock

1343 MHz

1251 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

320.3GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

-

20

SM Count

14

2560

Shading Units

1792

160

TMUs

56

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

56

-

RT Cores

14

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

93.95 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

42.98 GPixel/s

234.9 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

75.21 GTexel/s

117.4 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

4.813 TFLOPS

7.516 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.813 TFLOPS

234.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.21 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

45W

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

GA106

N17E-G3-A1

GPU Variant

-

Pascal

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

16 nm

Process Size

8 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

12 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

6.1

CUDA

8.6

6.4

Shader Model

6.7

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