nvidia

Brand

12GB GDDR6X

Memory

10240

Cores

912.4 GB/s

Bandwidth

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

$1199 May 2021 View Details

nvidia

Brand

8GB GDDR6

Memory

2560

Cores

320 GB/s

Bandwidth

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

$249 Jul 2025 View Details

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

12GB GDDR6X 350W $1199 May 2021

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

$1199 • May 2021

GeForce RTX 5050

$249 • Jul 2025

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

8GB GDDR6 130W $249 Jul 2025

Specs Comparison

Specification	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050
Memory Size	12 GB	8 GB
Memory Type	GDDR6X	GDDR6
TDP	350 W	130 W
Core Clock	N/A	N/A
Boost Clock	1665 MHz	2572 MHz
Memory Bandwidth	912.4 GB/s	320 GB/s
Process Size	8nm	5nm
Architecture	Ampere	Blackwell 2.0
Shading Units	10240	2560
RT Cores	80	20
TMUs	320	80
ROPs	112	32
Memory Bus	384-bit	128-bit
Memory Clock	1188 MHz	2500 MHz
Pixel Rate	186.5 GPixel/s	82.3 GPixel/s
Texture Rate	912.4 GTexel/s	205.8 GTexel/s
FP32 Performance	34.1 GFLOPS	13.17 GFLOPS
L2 Cache	6.00 MB	24.00 MB
Die Size	628 mm²	149 mm²
Transistors	28300 Million	16900 Million
Required PSU	750 W	300 W
Power Connectors	1x 12-pin	1x 8-pin
Bus Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 5.0 x8
DirectX	12.2	12.2
Vulkan	1.3	1.4
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Foundry	Samsung	TSMC

Comparison in Synthetic Benchmarks

3DMark Time Spy

Synthetic DirectX 12 benchmark that measures GPU performance in gaming workloads

Graphics Score

21408 (+103%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

10522

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

Geekbench 6

Cross-platform benchmark that measures GPU compute performance using OpenCL and Metal APIs

OpenCL Score

196756 (+113%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

92181

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

GFXBench 5.0

Cross-platform 3D graphics benchmark suite that measures GPU performance across different APIs

Aztec Ruins High (FPS)

227.3 FPS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

FPS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

PassMark G2D

Comprehensive 2D graphics benchmark that measures GPU performance in various graphics operations

G2D Mark

26976 (+55%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

17421

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

Game Benchmarks Comparison (12 benchmarks)

God of War Ragnarok

7.7 2024 • Action, Adventure, RPG • Santa Monica Studio, Jetpack Interactive

1080p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti (+56%)

AVG 98 FPS

MIN 85 FPS

GeForce RTX 5050

AVG 63 FPS

MIN 54 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti (+62%)

AVG 81 FPS

MIN 71 FPS

GeForce RTX 5050

AVG 50 FPS

MIN 44 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti (+74%)

AVG 54 FPS

MIN 47 FPS

GeForce RTX 5050

AVG 31 FPS

MIN 28 FPS

Winner

Loser

Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition Background

Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition

7.7 2024 • Action, RPG • Guerrilla, Nixxes Software

1080p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti (+63%)

AVG 96 FPS

MIN 84 FPS

GeForce RTX 5050

AVG 59 FPS

MIN 53 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti (+67%)

AVG 77 FPS

MIN 68 FPS

GeForce RTX 5050

AVG 46 FPS

MIN 41 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti (+75%)

AVG 49 FPS

MIN 44 FPS

GeForce RTX 5050

AVG 28 FPS

MIN 23 FPS

Winner

Loser

Forza Horizon 5

8 2021 • Action, Adventure, Racing, Simulation, Sport • Playground Games

1080p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti (+23%)

AVG 114 FPS

MIN 97 FPS

GeForce RTX 5050

AVG 93 FPS

MIN 77 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti (+50%)

AVG 99 FPS

MIN 85 FPS

GeForce RTX 5050

AVG 66 FPS

MIN 55 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti (+76%)

AVG 72 FPS

MIN 60 FPS

GeForce RTX 5050

AVG 41 FPS

MIN 35 FPS

Winner

Loser

The Last of Us Part I

8.5 2022 • Action, Adventure • Naughty Dog LLC, Iron Galaxy Studios

1080p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti (+125%)

AVG 115 FPS

MIN 101 FPS

GeForce RTX 5050

AVG 51 FPS

MIN 47 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti (+130%)

AVG 85 FPS

MIN 75 FPS

GeForce RTX 5050

AVG 37 FPS

MIN 35 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti (+119%)

AVG 46 FPS

MIN 43 FPS

GeForce RTX 5050

AVG 21 FPS

MIN 20 FPS

Winner

Loser