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

GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q

GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 6 GB

Architecture

Pascal (2016−2021)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

N17E-G3 Max-Q

GA107

Market segment

Laptop

Release date

May 2017

July 2022

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x8

Supplementary power connectors

None

Boost clock speed

1278 - 1468 MHz

1492 MHz

Core clock speed

1101 - 1290 MHz

Floating-point performance

7,516 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

16 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

7,200 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2560

2048

Power consumption (TDP)

90 - 110 Watt

75 Watt

Texture fill rate

234.9

95.49

Memory type

GDDR5X

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

8 GB

6 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

96 Bit

Memory clock speed

10000 MHz

12 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

320.3 GB/s

144.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

No outputs

Portable Device Dependent

G-SYNC support

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

6.1

8.6

OpenCL

1.2

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

6.7

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.3

VR Ready