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GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop vs 3080 Laptop

GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop
VS
GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop
AD107 (GN21-X2)
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop
GA104 (GN20-E7)

We compared two discrete laptop gaming GPUs: the GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile 6 GB with 20 pipelines and 2560 shaders against the 2 years and 1 month older RTX 3080 Mobile 16 GB that utilizes 48 pipelines and 6144 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

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  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Gaming performance
  4. Benchmarks
  5. AI
  6. Specs
  7. Comments

Review

General comparison of performance in games, applications, power efficiency, and other metrics
Gaming
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, and Vulkan games
Workstation
Perf. in 3D modeling, video editing and rendering apps
AI/ML
Capabilities for machine learning and AI-related tasks
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of RTX 3080 Mobile over RTX 4050 Mobile
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 5 nm process technology
  • Supports Nvidia DLSS 3 technology
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop
  • Performs significantly better (up to 46%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 74% higher maximum theoretical performance (21 vs 12.1 TFLOPS)
  • Shows 45% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 77 vs 53 FPS
  • Includes 10 GB more video memory
  • Features 112 more tensor cores for effective ML and AI workloads
  • Has 2.3x higher memory bandwidth: 448 vs 192 GB/s
  • Achieves 58% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (128K vs 81K)
  • Has 2.4x more shading units (6144 vs 2560)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions
GPU
RTX 4050 Laptop
vs
RTX 3080 Laptop

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
107
66
56
35
132
87
77
53
The Witcher 3
117
91
67
34
151
126
90
48
Counter-Strike 2
167
126
88
43
221
172
120
66
Far Cry 6
87
79
59
32
115
107
85
47
Hogwarts Legacy
62
52
34
20
85
72
55
30
CoD: Modern Warfare III
75
68
44
30
104
97
70
46
Ghost of Tsushima
57
45
33
17
82
67
51
29
Cyberpunk 2077
61
57
34
13
91
80
51
22
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
98
90
62
32
144
131
96
49
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 92 125
1080p Ultra 75 104
1440p Ultra 53 77
4K Ultra 28 43
Margin of Error Low Low

Benchmarks

Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps

3D Mark

Multiplatform graphics benchmark suite that directly correlates with performance in modern games
Steel Nomad Lite Score
Time Spy 8212 11989
Solar Bay 35375 50311
Port Royal 4624 7199
Fire Strike 21909 29057
Wild Life Extreme 15492 24744
Night Raid 84848 81862
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
RTX 4050 Laptop
81436
RTX 3080 Laptop +58%
128827
Background Blur 141.4 img/sec 211 img/sec
Face Detection 84.1 img/sec 123.6 img/sec
Horizon Detection 3.07 Gpixels/sec 5.78 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 3.91 Gpixels/sec 8.03 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3.85 Gpixels/sec 6.25 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 1.1 Gpixels/sec 1.17 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 325.9 Gpixels/sec 543.2 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 11008.8 FPS 17774.9 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
RTX 4050 Laptop
14217
RTX 3080 Laptop +13%
16065
G2D Mark 622 625
DirectX 11 129 FPS 145 FPS
DirectX 12 60 FPS 71 FPS
GPU Compute 5847 Ops/s 7049 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 14311 & 3515 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
RTX 4050 Laptop
2567.25
RTX 3080 Laptop +26%
3245.42
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 2120 & 897 samples
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Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-07-17 (kam)Geekbench 6 OpenCL93074
📘 2026-07-15 (Mr._.Flexo)Cinebench 20248096
📘 2026-07-02 (SuperDuck)Geekbench 6 OpenCL90032
📘 2026-05-18 (TheMan)Cinebench 20248523
📘 2026-05-15 -> ZayGeekbench 6 OpenCL89343
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GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop
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Artificial Intelligence Tests

Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasks

GeekBench 6 ML

Tests throughput of AI operations in single, half, and quantized precision
GB6 ML Single Precision
RTX 4050 Laptop
15570
RTX 3080 Laptop +18%
18354
GB6 ML Half Precision
RTX 4050 Laptop
27160
RTX 3080 Laptop +10%
29767
GB6 ML Quantized
Image Classification (SP) 6233 6773
Image Segmentation (HP) 16395 19587
Image Super Resolution (Q) 18240 15553
Face Detection (HP) 30758 35885
Pose Estimation (Q) 61300 82446
Text Classification (SP) 3124 2830
Machine Translation (HP) 4357 4019
Object Detection (SP) 7812 8380
Depth Estimation (Q) 29192 28597
Style Transfer (SP) 117759 184715
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop and 3080 Laptop

General

Vendor Nvidia Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released February 22, 2023 January 12, 2021
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment Entry-level High-end
Architecture Ada Lovelace Ampere
GPU Codename AD107 (GN21-X2) GA104 (GN20-E7)
Rival Equivalent - Radeon RX 7700S - Radeon RX 6800M
Successor - GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop - GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop
Recommended CPU - Intel Core Ultra 7 155H or above - Intel Core i9 12900H or above
Laptop GPU ranking (66th and 33rd place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1140-2070 MHz (configurable) 780-1350 MHz (configurable)
Boost Clock 1605-2370 MHz (configurable) 1245-1710 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 2560 6144
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 80 192
Render Output Units (ROPs) 32 96
Compute Units (Pipelines) 20 48
Tensor Cores 80 192
Ray-tracing Cores 20 48
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 12MB shared 4MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 51-76 GPixel/s 120-164 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 128-190 GTexel/s 239-328 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RTX 4050 Laptop
8.2-12.1 TFLOPS
RTX 3080 Laptop +74%
15.3-21 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
TGP 35-140 W (configurable) 80-165 W (configurable)
Manufacturing TSMC Samsung
Fabrication Process 5 nm 8 nm
Die Size 156 mm² 392 mm²
Transistor Count 18.9 billion 17.4 billion
Transistor Density 121.15 MTr/mm² 44.39 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory Size 6 GB 8-16 GB
Memory Clock 2000 MHz 1500-1750 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 16000 Mbps 12000-14000 Mbps
Bus 96-bit 256-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
RTX 4050 Laptop
192 GB/s
RTX 3080 Laptop +133%
448 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.2
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 2.0
CUDA 8.9 8.6
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS DLSS 3 DLSS 2
DisplayPort 1.4a 1.4a

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