NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Sep 2020
Jun 2025
Generation
GeForce 30
GeForce 50
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 5.0 x8
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1440 MHz
2317 MHz
Boost Clock
1710 MHz
2572 MHz
Memory Clock
1188 MHz
2500 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
10GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR6X
GDDR6
Memory Bus
320bit
128bit
Bandwidth
760.3GB/s
320.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
68
20
Shading Units
8704
2560
TMUs
272
80
ROPs
96
32
Tensor Cores
272
80
RT Cores
68
20
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
5 MB
24 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
164.2 GPixel/s
82.30 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
465.1 GTexel/s
205.8 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
29.77 TFLOPS
13.17 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
29.77 TFLOPS
13.17 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
465.1 GFLOPS
205.8 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA102
GB207
GPU Variant
GA102-200-KD-A1
GB207-300-A1
Architecture
Ampere
Blackwell 2.0
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
5 nm
Transistors
28.3 billion
16.9 billion
Die Size
628 mm²
Unknown
Board Design
TDP
320W
130W
Suggested PSU
700 W
300 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x HDMI 2.1b3x DisplayPort 2.1b
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.4
CUDA
8.6
12.0
Shader Model
6.6
6.8
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
17,662
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3DMark Time Spy Extreme
8,879
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▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.