GPU Comparison

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

CORE STATE GA102

VRAM 12 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1710 MHz

TDP 350 W

BUS WIDTH 384 bit

ARCHITECTURE Ampere

nm

PROCESS 8 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2022

VS

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

GeForce RTX 5050

CORE STATE GB207

VRAM 8 GB

CLOCK SPEED 2572 MHz

TDP 130 W

BUS WIDTH 128 bit

ARCHITECTURE Blackwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 5 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2025

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

4,791

N/A

geekbench_opencl

N/A

93,892

geekbench_vulkan

N/A

89,381

passmark_directx_10

N/A

103

passmark_directx_11

N/A

150

passmark_directx_12

N/A

66

passmark_directx_9

N/A

186

passmark_g2d

N/A

1,113

passmark_g3d

N/A

17,326

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

9,184

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

RTX 3080 12 GB

RTX 5050

Core Specs

Shading Units

8,960

2,560 -71.4%

Shaders

8,960

2,560 -71.4%

TMUs

280

80 -71.4%

ROPs

96

32 -66.7%

SM Count

70

20 -71.4%

Clocks

Base Clock

1260 MHz

2317 MHz

Boost Clock

1710 MHz

2572 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz 19 Gbps effective

2500 MHz 20 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

12 GB

8 GB

VRAM (MB)

12,288

8,192 -33.3%

Memory Type

GDDR6X

GDDR6

Memory Bus

384 bit

128 bit

Bandwidth

912.4 GB/s

320.0 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

128 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

6 MB

24 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

164.2 GPixel/s

82.30 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

478.8 GTexel/s

205.8 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

30.64 TFLOPS

13.17 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

478.8 GFLOPS (1:64)

205.8 GFLOPS (1:64)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

30.64 TFLOPS (1:1)

13.17 TFLOPS (1:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

70

20 -71.4%

Tensor Cores

280

80 -71.4%

Power

TDP

350 W

130 W

TDP (W)

350

130 -62.9%

Suggested PSU

750 W

300 W

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

1x 8-pin

Architecture

Architecture

Ampere

Blackwell 2.0

GPU Name

GA102

GB207

Generation

GeForce 30

GeForce 50

Process Size

8 nm

5 nm

Transistors

28,300 million

16,900 million

Die Size

628 mm²

149 mm²

Foundry

Samsung

TSMC

Density

45.1M / mm²

113.4M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.4

1.4

OpenCL

3.0

3.0

CUDA

8.6

12.0

Shader Model

6.8

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Dual-slot

Length

285 mm 11.2 inches

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Height

112 mm 4.4 inches

—

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x HDMI 2.1b3x DisplayPort 2.1b

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

PCIe 5.0 x8

Other

Launch Price

799 USD

249 USD

Production

End-of-life

Active

Predecessor

GeForce 20

GeForce 40

Successor

GeForce 40

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