NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop

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

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4905 points
2% slightly better overall score
4766 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

94 FPS
101 FPS
8 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

79 FPS
16 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate
63 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

62 FPS
89 FPS
27 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

64 FPS
16 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
48 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

606.98 points
2969.98 points
389% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

60120 points
85838 points
42% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

65170 points
80080 points
22% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1607 MHz
57% significantly higher core clock speed
1020 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1733 MHz
15% slightly higher boost clock speed
1500 MHz

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
384 GB/s
19% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

180 W
50 W
259% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

110.9 Gigapixels/s
131% significantly higher pixel rate
48 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

277.3 Gigatexels/s
131% significantly higher texture rate
120 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
107th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 May
2025 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5X
GDDR7

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 Laptop benchmarks

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

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

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