GeForce RTX 5050 vs GeForce RTX 5080

[ VERDICT ] Winner: GeForce RTX 5080 (84/100)

GeForce RTX 5080 leads overall with a score of 84/100 compared to GeForce RTX 5050 (35/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Why choose GeForce RTX 5050:
  • + Higher Efficiency score (62 vs 48)
Why choose GeForce RTX 5080:
  • + Higher Gaming score (88 vs 34)

Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark GeForce RTX 5050 GeForce RTX 5080
Efficiency 62.0 Average WINNER 48.0 Poor
Gaming 34.0 Poor 88.0 Very Good WINNER

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5050 GeForce RTX 5080
Fire Strike 28681 75605
Night Raid 111533 199650
Port Royal 6167 23275
Solar Bay 47163 161489
Time Spy 10202 33000
Wild Life Extreme 18924 69617

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5050 GeForce RTX 5080
CUDA 12.0 12.0
DLSS DLSS 4 DLSS 4
DirectX 12.2 12.2
DisplayPort 2.1b 2.1b
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
Vulkan 1.4 1.4

Games

Games specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5050 GeForce RTX 5080
1080p High 110 239
1080p Ultra 91 205
1440p Ultra 67 165
4K Ultra 37 96
CoD: Modern Warfare III 92835937 250244197135
Counter-Strike 2 19615111155 31723817887
Cyberpunk 2077 80734219 21319213861
Far Cry 6 102957242 19417115597
Forza Horizon 5 121746445 250186179138
Ghost of Tsushima 71554226 16614212682
Hogwarts Legacy 74624824 18515212467
Margin of Error Low Low
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1211138341 306276214111
The Witcher 3 1351098045 27124417290

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5050 GeForce RTX 5080
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 31732 69068
Face Detection (HP) 40054 92863
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 7103 15441
Image Segmentation (HP) 22390 47173
Image Super Resolution (Q) 17642 43223
Machine Translation (HP) 5705 7905
Object Detection (SP) 8910 20955
Pose Estimation (Q) 66253 202202
Style Transfer (SP) 107993 349205
Text Classification (SP) 3436 3701

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5050 GeForce RTX 5080
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 129.6 img/sec 319.6 img/sec
Edge Detection 4.41 Gpixels/sec 19.5 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 94.6 img/sec 225 img/sec
Feature Matching 1.16 Gpixels/sec 2.33 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 4.43 Gpixels/sec 20.4 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 3.45 Gpixels/sec 13.6 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 13990.8 FPS 43676.6 FPS
Stereo Matching 434.1 Gpixels/sec 1750 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5050 GeForce RTX 5080
Architecture Blackwell 2.0 Blackwell 2.0
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Desktop Desktop
GPU Codename GB207-300 GB203-400
Launch price (MSRP) $249 $999
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Recommended CPU -Intel Core Ultra 5 245Kor above -Intel Core Ultra 7 265Kor above
Released June 24, 2025 January 7, 2025
Segment Mid-range High-end
Vendor Nvidia Nvidia

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5050 GeForce RTX 5080
Base Clock 2317 MHz 2295 MHz
Boost Clock 2572 MHz 2617 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 20 84
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 32MB shared 64MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores 20 84
Render Output Units (ROPs) 32 112
Shading Units 2560 10752
Tensor Cores 80 336
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 80 336

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5050 GeForce RTX 5080
Bus 128-bit 256-bit
ECC No No
Effective Memory Speed 20000 Mbps 30000 Mbps
Memory Clock 1750 MHz 1875 MHz
Memory Size 8 GB 16 GB
Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR7

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5050 GeForce RTX 5080
DirectX 11 152 FPS 327 FPS
DirectX 12 65 FPS 145 FPS
G2D Mark 1058 1397
GPU Compute 8416 Ops/s 19034 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5050 GeForce RTX 5080
Die Size 149 mm² 378 mm²
Fabrication Process 5 nm 4 nm
Interface PCIe 5.0 x8 PCIe 5.0 x16
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Max. Temperature 87°C —
TGP 130 W 360 W
Transistor Count 16.9 billion 45.6 billion
Transistor Density 113.42 MTr/mm² 120.63 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5050 GeForce RTX 5080
Pixel Fill Rate 82 GPixel/s 293 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 206 GTexel/s 879 GTexel/s

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5050 GeForce RTX 5080
Date Benchmark Benchmark
📘 2026-02-22(Alex Paulino) Cinebench 2024 —
📘 2026-08-25(Sohail) Cinebench 2024 —
📘 2026-06-01(Nowh) — Cinebench 2024

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