NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jun 2025
Jan 2022
Generation
GeForce 50
GeForce 30
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x8
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
2317 MHz
1260 MHz
Boost Clock
2572 MHz
1710 MHz
Memory Clock
2500 MHz
1188 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
12GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR6X
Memory Bus
128bit
384bit
Bandwidth
320.0GB/s
912.4GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
20
70
Shading Units
2560
8960
TMUs
80
280
ROPs
32
96
Tensor Cores
80
280
RT Cores
20
70
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
24 MB
6 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
82.30 GPixel/s
164.2 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
205.8 GTexel/s
478.8 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
13.17 TFLOPS
30.64 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
13.17 TFLOPS
30.64 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
205.8 GFLOPS
478.8 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GB207
GA102
GPU Variant
GB207-300-A1
GA102-220-A1
Architecture
Blackwell 2.0
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Process Size
5 nm
8 nm
Transistors
16.9 billion
28.3 billion
Die Size
Unknown
628 mm²
Board Design
TDP
130W
350W
Suggested PSU
300 W
750 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1b3x DisplayPort 2.1b
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
1x 12-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.4
1.3
CUDA
12.0
8.6
Shader Model
6.8
6.8
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.