nvidia

Brand

10GB GDDR6X

Memory

8704

Cores

760.3 GB/s

Bandwidth

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

$699 Aug 2020 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

10GB GDDR6X 320W $699 Aug 2020

GeForce RTX 3080

$699 • Aug 2020

GeForce RTX 5050

$249 • Jul 2025

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

8GB GDDR6 130W $249 Jul 2025

Specs Comparison

Specification	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050
Memory Size	10 GB	8 GB
Memory Type	GDDR6X	GDDR6
TDP	320 W	130 W
Core Clock	N/A	N/A
Boost Clock	1710 MHz	2572 MHz
Memory Bandwidth	760.3 GB/s	320 GB/s
Process Size	8nm	5nm
Architecture	Ampere	Blackwell 2.0
Shading Units	8704	2560
RT Cores	68	20
TMUs	272	80
ROPs	96	32
Memory Bus	320-bit	128-bit
Memory Clock	1188 MHz	2500 MHz
Pixel Rate	164.2 GPixel/s	82.3 GPixel/s
Texture Rate	760.3 GTexel/s	205.8 GTexel/s
FP32 Performance	29.77 GFLOPS	13.17 GFLOPS
L2 Cache	5.00 MB	24.00 MB
Die Size	628 mm²	149 mm²
Transistors	28300 Million	16900 Million
Required PSU	700 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

19022 (+81%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

10522

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

Geekbench 6

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

OpenCL Score

161903 (+76%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

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)

211.5 FPS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

FPS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

PassMark G2D

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

G2D Mark

25153 (+44%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

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 (+44%)

AVG 91 FPS

MIN 79 FPS

GeForce RTX 5050

AVG 63 FPS

MIN 54 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 3080 (+50%)

AVG 75 FPS

MIN 65 FPS

GeForce RTX 5050

AVG 50 FPS

MIN 44 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 3080 (+55%)

AVG 48 FPS

MIN 42 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 (+51%)

AVG 89 FPS

MIN 78 FPS

GeForce RTX 5050

AVG 59 FPS

MIN 53 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 3080 (+54%)

AVG 71 FPS

MIN 63 FPS

GeForce RTX 5050

AVG 46 FPS

MIN 41 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 3080 (+57%)

AVG 44 FPS

MIN 39 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 (+14%)

AVG 106 FPS

MIN 90 FPS

GeForce RTX 5050

AVG 93 FPS

MIN 77 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 3080 (+38%)

AVG 91 FPS

MIN 78 FPS

GeForce RTX 5050

AVG 66 FPS

MIN 55 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 3080 (+56%)

AVG 64 FPS

MIN 53 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 (+110%)

AVG 107 FPS

MIN 94 FPS

GeForce RTX 5050

AVG 51 FPS

MIN 47 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 3080 (+111%)

AVG 78 FPS

MIN 69 FPS

GeForce RTX 5050

AVG 37 FPS

MIN 35 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 3080 (+95%)

AVG 41 FPS

MIN 38 FPS

GeForce RTX 5050

AVG 21 FPS

MIN 20 FPS

Winner

Loser