NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 365.00
$ 249.99
$ 115.01 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4905 points
5507 points
12% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

94 FPS
135 FPS
41 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

79 FPS
13 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate
66 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

62 FPS
94 FPS
32 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

64 FPS
13 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate
52 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

7547 points
225% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
2317 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

606.98 points
2880.41 points
374% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

60120 points
97092 points
61% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

65170 points
91845 points
40% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1607 MHz
2317 MHz
44% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1733 MHz
2572 MHz
48% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit
100% significantly larger memory bus width
128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

320.3 GB/s
0.09% slightly higher memory bandwidth
320 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

180 W
130 W
38% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

110.9 Gigapixels/s
34% slightly higher pixel rate
82.3 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

277.3 Gigatexels/s
34% slightly higher texture rate
205.8 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560
Identical
2560

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160
100% significantly more texture mapping units
80

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

64
100% significantly more render output processors
32

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

104th of 586
91st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 May
2025 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5X
GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
4.6

GeForce GTX 1080 vs GeForce RTX 5050 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 1080 beats the GeForce RTX 5050 in gaming performance.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 1080 over the GeForce RTX 5050.

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