Product Compare
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050
| GPU | GPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Graphics Card | ||
| Release Date | Jan 2022 | Jun 2025 |
| Generation | GeForce 30 | GeForce 50 |
| Type | Desktop | Desktop |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 | PCIe 5.0 x8 |
| Clock Speeds | ||
| Base Clock | 1260 MHz | 2317 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 1710 MHz | 2572 MHz |
| Memory Clock | 1188 MHz | 2500 MHz |
| Memory | ||
| Memory Size | 12GB | 8GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR6X | GDDR6 |
| Memory Bus | 384bit | 128bit |
| Bandwidth | 912.4GB/s | 320.0GB/s |
| Render Config | ||
| SM Count | 70 | 20 |
| Shading Units | 8960 | 2560 |
| TMUs | 280 | 80 |
| ROPs | 96 | 32 |
| Tensor Cores | 280 | 80 |
| RT Cores | 70 | 20 |
| L1 Cache | 128 KB (per SM) | 128 KB (per SM) |
| L2 Cache | 6 MB | 24 MB |
| Theoretical Performance | ||
| Pixel Rate | 164.2 GPixel/s | 82.30 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 478.8 GTexel/s | 205.8 GTexel/s |
| FP16 (half) | 30.64 TFLOPS | 13.17 TFLOPS |
| FP32 (float) | 30.64 TFLOPS | 13.17 TFLOPS |
| FP64 (double) | 478.8 GFLOPS | 205.8 GFLOPS |
| Graphics Processor | ||
| GPU Name | GA102 | GB207 |
| GPU Variant | GA102-220-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 | 350W | 130W |
| Suggested PSU | 750 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 | 6.8 | 6.8 |