NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 graphics comparison: performance score, cores and clock speeds, VRAM, TGP, cache, and RT and AI units. The better value in each row is highlighted in green.
Summary
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 offers a higher boost clock (2662 MHz vs 2287 MHz). NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 offers more compute units (CUDA cores: 7680 vs 2560), more VRAM (16 GB vs 8 GB), a wider memory bus (256 bit vs 128 bit), higher memory bandwidth (896 GB/s vs 384 GB/s), and more L2 cache (64 MB vs 32 MB).
Performance score
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Key specs
CUDA cores2560
CUDA cores7680
Boost2662 MHz
Boost2287 MHz
VRAM8 GB
VRAM16 GB
Memory bus128 bit
Memory bus256 bit
TGP35–115 W
TGP80–175 W
MemoryGDDR7
MemoryGDDR7
General
SeriesRTX 50 Mobile
SeriesRTX 50 Mobile
GPU architectureBlackwell
GPU architectureBlackwell
GPU chipGB207
GPU chipGB203
Chip variantGN22-X2-A1
Chip variantGN22-X9-A1
FoundryTSMC
FoundryTSMC
Process node5 nm
Process node5 nm
Die size149 mm²
Die size378 mm²
Transistors16.9 billion
Transistors45.6 billion
InterfacePCIe 5.0 x8
InterfacePCIe 5.0 x16
Release dateJune 24, 2025
Release dateJanuary 6, 2025
Cores and clocks
CUDA cores2560
CUDA cores7680
20× SM
60× SM
Boost clock (max)2662 MHz
Boost clock (max)2287 MHz
Boost clock (min)1500 MHz
Boost clock (min)1500 MHz
Memory
VRAM8 GB
VRAM16 GB
MemoryGDDR7
MemoryGDDR7
Memory bus128 bit
Memory bus256 bit
Memory speed24 Gb/s
Memory speed28 Gb/s
Bandwidth384 GB/s
Bandwidth896 GB/s
TGP
TGP range35 - 100 W
TGP range80 - 150 W
Dynamic Boost15 W
Dynamic Boost25 W
Cache
L2 cache32 MB
L2 cache64 MB
L1 cache128 KB
L1 cache128 KB
Units
TMUs80
TMUs240
ROPs32
ROPs96
RT cores20
RT cores60
Tensor cores80
Tensor cores240
SM blocks20
SM blocks60
AI
AI performance440 TOPS
AI performance1334 TOPS