NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Max Q

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Max Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4050 Max Q and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 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 2 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 29% (1605MHz vs 1245MHz)

Lower TDP (35W vs 80W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Max Q 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)

3584 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4050 Max Q

8.218 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 Max Q +86%

15.3 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4050 Max Q

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GeForce RTX 3080 Max Q

Graphics Card

Jan 2023

Release Date

Jan 2021

GeForce 40 Mobile

Generation

GeForce 30 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1140 MHz

Base Clock

780 MHz

1605 MHz

Boost Clock

1245 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

96bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

384.0GB/s

Render Config

-

20

SM Count

48

2560

Shading Units

6144

80

TMUs

192

48

ROPs

96

80

Tensor Cores

192

20

RT Cores

48

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

12 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

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Theoretical Performance

77.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

119.5 GPixel/s

128.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

239.0 GTexel/s

8.218 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

15.30 TFLOPS

8.218 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

15.30 TFLOPS

128.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

239.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

35W

TDP

80W

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Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

AD107

GPU Name

GA104

GN21-X2

GPU Variant

GA104-775-A1

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

5 nm

Process Size

8 nm

Unknown

Transistors

17.4 billion

146 mm²

Die Size

392 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

8.9

CUDA

8.6

6.7

Shader Model

6.6

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