NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 16 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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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

23717 points

440% significantly better overall score

4386 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

549 FPS

456 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

94 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

277 FPS

213 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

64 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

404 FPS

314 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

90 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

225 FPS

176 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

49 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

9133.30 points

207% significantly higher Blender score

2969.98 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

267906 points

212% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

85838 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

257198 points

221% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

80080 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

2295 MHz

125% significantly higher core clock speed

1020 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2617 MHz

74% significantly 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

960 GB/s

150% significantly higher memory bandwidth

384 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

360 W

50 W

619% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

293.1 Gigapixels/s

510% significantly higher pixel rate

48 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

879.3 Gigatexels/s

632% significantly higher texture rate

120 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

10752

319% significantly more shading units

2560

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

336

319% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

112

250% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

4th of 597

115th of 597

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2025 January

2025 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR7

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 5080 vs GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 5080 beats the GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop in gaming performance.

The GeForce RTX 5080 has a significantly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce RTX 5080 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 50 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 5080 at 360 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 5080 is faster than the GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop.