NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5050 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 4% (2610MHz vs 2520MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (504.2GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

5120 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 's Advantages

Lower TDP (100W vs 285W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB +210%

40.09 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5050

12.9 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB

VS

GeForce RTX 5050

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Jan 2025

GeForce 40

Generation

GeForce 50

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 5.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2310 MHz

Base Clock

2235 MHz

2610 MHz

Boost Clock

2520 MHz

1313 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

504.2GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

60

SM Count

20

7680

Shading Units

2560

240

TMUs

80

ROPs

32

240

Tensor Cores

80

60

RT Cores

20

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

48 MB

L2 Cache

32 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

208.8 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

80.64 GPixel/s

626.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

201.6 GTexel/s

40.09 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.90 TFLOPS

40.09 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.90 TFLOPS

626.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

201.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

285W

TDP

100W

600 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Processor

AD104

GPU Name

GB207

AD104-400-A1

GPU Variant

GB207

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Blackwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

4 nm

Process Size

0 nm

35.8 billion

Transistors

Unknown

295 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

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

9.1

6.6

Shader Model

6.7

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