NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 vs NVIDIA A40 PCIe

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

NVIDIA A40 PCIe

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5050 and 48GB VRAM A40 PCIe to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 45% (2520MHz vs 1740MHz)

Lower TDP (100W vs 300W)

NVIDIA A40 PCIe 's Advantages

More VRAM (48GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (695.8GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

8192 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 5050

12.9 TFLOPS

A40 PCIe +190%

37.42 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5050

VS

A40 PCIe

Graphics Card

Jan 2025

Release Date

Oct 2020

GeForce 50

Generation

Tesla

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 5.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2235 MHz

Base Clock

1305 MHz

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

1740 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1812 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

48GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

695.8GB/s

Render Config

-

20

SM Count

84

2560

Shading Units

10752

80

TMUs

336

32

ROPs

112

80

Tensor Cores

336

20

RT Cores

84

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

32 MB

L2 Cache

6 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

80.64 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

194.9 GPixel/s

201.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

584.6 GTexel/s

12.90 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

37.42 TFLOPS

12.90 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

37.42 TFLOPS

201.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

584.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

300W

300 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Processor

GB207

GPU Name

GA102

GB207

GPU Variant

-

Blackwell 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

0 nm

Process Size

8 nm

Unknown

Transistors

28.3 billion

Unknown

Die Size

628 mm²

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

9.1

CUDA

8.6

6.7

Shader Model

6.6

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