GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile 3 GB vs RTX 3080 Mobile

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking90not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency26.74no data
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code nameGA104GP107
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date12 January 2021 (3 years ago)1 February 2019 (5 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores6144768
Core clock speed1110 MHz1366 MHz
Boost clock speed1545 MHz1442 MHz
Number of transistors17,400 million3,300 million
Manufacturing process technology8 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)115 Watt75 Watt
Texture fill rate296.669.22
Floating-point processing power18.98 TFLOPS2.215 TFLOPS
ROPs9624
TMUs19248
Tensor Cores192no data
Ray Tracing Cores48no data

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizelargeno data
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR6GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount8 GB3 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit96 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz1752 MHz
Memory bandwidth448.0 GB/s84.1 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.56.4
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.01.2
Vulkan1.21.2
CUDA8.66.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 12 January 2021 1 February 2019
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 3 GB
Chip lithography 8 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 115 Watt 75 Watt

RTX 3080 Mobile has an age advantage of 1 year, a 166.7% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 75% more advanced lithography process.

GTX 1050 Mobile 3 GB, on the other hand, has 53.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile and GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile 3 GB. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile
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