GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q and GeForce RTX 3050 6GB Mobile - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q

GeForce RTX 3050 6GB Mobile

Architecture

Pascal (2016−2021)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

N17E-G3 Max-Q

GN20-P0-R 6 GB

Market segment

Laptop

Release date

May 2017

January 2023

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

Boost clock speed

1278 - 1468 MHz

1492 MHz

Core clock speed

1101 - 1290 MHz

1237 MHz

Floating-point performance

7,516 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

16 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

7,200 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2560

Power consumption (TDP)

90 - 110 Watt

60 Watt (35 - 80 Watt TGP)

Texture fill rate

234.9

Memory type

GDDR5X

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

8 GB

6 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

96 Bit

Memory clock speed

10000 MHz

12000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

320.3 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

No outputs

G-SYNC support

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12_2

CUDA

6.1

OpenCL

1.2

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

Vulkan

1.2.131

VR Ready