NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5050 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 107% (2520MHz vs 1216MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

512 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (100W vs 165W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 5050 +158%

12.9 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980

4.981 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5050

VS

GeForce GTX 980

Graphics Card

Jan 2025

Release Date

Sep 2014

GeForce 50

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 5.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2235 MHz

Base Clock

1127 MHz

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

1216 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

-

20

SM Count

-

2560

Shading Units

2048

80

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

64

80

Tensor Cores

-

20

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

32 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

80.64 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

77.82 GPixel/s

201.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

155.6 GTexel/s

12.90 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.90 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.981 TFLOPS

201.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

155.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

165W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GB207

GPU Name

GM204

GB207

GPU Variant

GM204-400-A1

Blackwell 2.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

0 nm

Process Size

28 nm

Unknown

Transistors

5.2 billion

Unknown

Die Size

398 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

9.1

CUDA

5.2

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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