NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5050 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 Ti to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 51% (2520MHz vs 1665MHz)

Lower TDP (100W vs 350W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 's Advantages

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (912.4GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

7680 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 5050

12.9 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +164%

34.1 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5050

VS

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

Graphics Card

Jan 2025

Release Date

May 2021

GeForce 50

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 5.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2235 MHz

Base Clock

1365 MHz

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

1665 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6X

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

912.4GB/s

Render Config

-

20

SM Count

80

2560

Shading Units

10240

80

TMUs

320

32

ROPs

112

80

Tensor Cores

320

20

RT Cores

80

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

32 MB

L2 Cache

6 MB

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Theoretical Performance

80.64 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

186.5 GPixel/s

201.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

532.8 GTexel/s

12.90 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

34.10 TFLOPS

12.90 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

34.10 TFLOPS

201.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

532.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

350W

300 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

GB207

GPU Name

GA102

GB207

GPU Variant

GA102-225-A1

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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