NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Mobile

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 6 GB NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 6 GB and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4080 Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 6 GB 's Advantages

Lower TDP (35W vs 110W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 68% (1665MHz vs 990MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (432.0GB/s vs 144.0GB/s)

5376 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 6 GB

4.055 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4080 Mobile +509%

24.72 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 6 GB

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GeForce RTX 4080 Mobile

Graphics Card

Jul 2022

Release Date

Jan 2023

GeForce 30 Mobile

Generation

GeForce 40 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

622 MHz

Base Clock

1290 MHz

990 MHz

Boost Clock

1665 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

96bit

Memory Bus

192bit

144.0GB/s

Bandwidth

432.0GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

58

-

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

7424

64

TMUs

232

32

ROPs

80

64

Tensor Cores

232

16

RT Cores

58

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

48 MB

Theoretical Performance

31.68 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

133.2 GPixel/s

63.36 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

386.3 GTexel/s

4.055 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

24.72 TFLOPS

4.055 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

24.72 TFLOPS

63.36 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

386.3 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

AD104

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GPU Variant

GN21-X9

Ampere

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

4 nm

8.7 billion

Transistors

35.8 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

295 mm²

Board Design

35W

TDP

110W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

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

6.7

Shader Model

6.7

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