GeForce RTX 5050 vs GTX 1080 Ti
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Nvidia GeForce RTX 5050
GB207-300
We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the GeForce RTX 5050 8 GB with 20 pipelines and 2560 shaders against the 8 years and 5 months older GTX 1080 Ti 11 GB that utilizes 28 pipelines and 3584 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.
Review
Gaming
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, and Vulkan games
Workstation
Perf. in 3D modeling, video editing and rendering apps
AI/ML
Capabilities for machine learning and AI-related tasks
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score
Value for money (Beta)
Key differences
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 5050
- Manufactured using a more efficient 5 nm process technology
- 17% higher maximum theoretical performance (13.2 vs 11.3 TFLOPS)
- Ray-tracing support with 20 dedicated RT cores
- Supports Nvidia DLSS 4 technology
- Achieves 23% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (92K vs 74K)
- Features 80 tensor cores for effective deep learning and AI workloads
Reasons to consider the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
- Includes 3 GB more video memory
- Has 51% higher memory bandwidth: 484.4 vs 320 GB/s
- Has 40% more shading units (3584 vs 2560)
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 121 78 67 46 |
119 76 65 42 |
| The Witcher 3 | 137 110 79 42 |
134 110 81 42 |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 198 146 106 55 |
199 146 106 51 |
| Far Cry 6 | 104 93 74 41 |
102 90 72 38 |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 74 63 44 23 |
75 59 46 23 |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 92 84 61 39 |
91 79 56 39 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 74 58 43 25 |
69 54 42 25 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 79 70 44 21 |
77 70 42 18 |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 125 113 82 43 |
118 109 78 40 |
| 1080p High | 112 | 109 |
| 1080p Ultra | 91 | 88 |
| 1440p Ultra | 67 | 65 |
| 4K Ultra | 37 | 35 |
| Margin of Error | Low | Low |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 10200 | 9981 |
| Solar Bay | 47171 | 26263 |
| Port Royal | 6181 | 2266 |
| Fire Strike | 28750 | 29329 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 19017 | 20170 |
| Night Raid | 111186 | 95847 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 129.6 img/sec | 200.9 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 94.6 img/sec | 88.6 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 3.45 Gpixels/sec | 3.55 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 4.41 Gpixels/sec | 5.57 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 4.43 Gpixels/sec | 5.79 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 1.16 Gpixels/sec | 0.33 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 434.1 Gpixels/sec | 265.6 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 13990.8 FPS | 6315.6 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 1052 | 941 |
| DirectX 11 | 152 FPS | 151 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 65 FPS | 66 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 8407 Ops/s | 9585 Ops/s |
Blender
Blender GPU
Recent User Tests
GeForce RTX 5050
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2026-08-25 (Sohail) | Cinebench 2024 | 34368 |
| 📘 2026-02-22 (Alex Paulino) | Cinebench 2024 | 39492 |
GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
No benchmark results yet
Artificial Intelligence Tests
Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasksGeekBench 6 ML
GB6 ML Single Precision
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
| Image Classification (SP) | 7103 | 3882 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 22390 | 7960 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 17642 | 14401 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 40054 | 13001 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 66253 | 72329 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 3436 | 1910 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 5705 | 3577 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 8910 | 4757 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 31732 | 20303 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 107993 | 164740 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of GeForce RTX 5050 and GTX 1080 TiGeneral
| Vendor | Nvidia | Nvidia |
| Build | Discrete | Discrete |
| Released | June 24, 2025 | March 10, 2017 |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $249 | $699 |
| Case | Desktop | Desktop |
| Purpose | Gaming | Gaming |
| Segment | Mid-range | High-end |
| Architecture | Blackwell 2.0 | Pascal |
| GPU Codename | GB207-300 | GP102 |
| Rival Equivalent | - | - Radeon RX 5700 XT |
| Successor | - | - GeForce RTX 3080 Ti |
| Recommended CPU | - Intel Core Ultra 5 245K or above | - Intel Core i7 7700K or above |
Desktop GPU rating (55th and 61st place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 2317 MHz | 1481 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 2572 MHz | 1582 MHz |
| Shading Units | 2560 | 3584 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 80 | 224 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 32 | 88 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 20 | 28 |
| Tensor Cores | 80 | No |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 20 | No |
| L1 Cache | 128KB per cluster | 48KB per cluster |
| L2 Cache | 32MB shared | 2816KB shared |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 82 GPixel/s | 139 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 206 GTexel/s | 354 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 5.0 x8 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| TGP | 130 W | 250 W |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | TSMC |
| Fabrication Process | 5 nm | 16 nm |
| Die Size | 149 mm² | 471 mm² |
| Transistor Count | 16.9 billion | 11 billion |
| Transistor Density | 113.42 MTr/mm² | 23.35 MTr/mm² |
| Max. Temperature | 87°C | - |
Memory
| Memory Type | GDDR6 | GDDR5X |
| Memory Size | 8 GB | 11 GB |
| Memory Clock | 1750 MHz | 1376 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | 20000 Mbps | 11000 Mbps |
| Bus | 128-bit | 352-bit |
| ECC | No | No |
Memory Bandwidth
API
| DirectX | 12.2 | 12 |
| Vulkan | 1.4 | 1.3 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | 3.0 |
| CUDA | 12.0 | 6.1 |
| Ray Tracing | Yes | No |
| DLSS | DLSS 4 | No |
| DisplayPort | 2.1b | 1.4a |
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