NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Sep 2014
Jun 2025
Generation
GeForce 900
GeForce 50
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 5.0 x8
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1127 MHz
2317 MHz
Boost Clock
1216 MHz
2572 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
2500 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
256bit
128bit
Bandwidth
224.4GB/s
320.0GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
2048
2560
TMUs
128
80
ROPs
64
32
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
2 MB
24 MB
SM Count
-
20
Tensor Cores
-
80
RT Cores
-
20
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
77.82 GPixel/s
82.30 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
155.6 GTexel/s
205.8 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
4.981 TFLOPS
13.17 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
155.6 GFLOPS
205.8 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
13.17 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GM204
GB207
GPU Variant
GM204-400-A1
GB207-300-A1
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
Blackwell 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
5 nm
Transistors
5.2 billion
16.9 billion
Die Size
398 mm²
Unknown
Board Design
TDP
165W
130W
Suggested PSU
450 W
300 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x HDMI 2.1b3x DisplayPort 2.1b
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.4
CUDA
5.2
12.0
Shader Model
6.4
6.8