NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 vs AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Jun 2025
Jan 2013
Generation
GeForce 50
Sea Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
2317 MHz
850 MHz
Boost Clock
2572 MHz
925 MHz
Memory Clock
2500 MHz
1250 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
8GB
3GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
384bit
Bandwidth
320.0GB/s
240.0GB/s

Render Config

SM Count
20
-
Shading Units
2560
1792
TMUs
80
112
ROPs
32
32
Tensor Cores
80
-
RT Cores
20
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
24 MB
768 KB
Compute Units
-
28

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
82.30 GPixel/s
29.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
205.8 GTexel/s
103.6 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
13.17 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
13.17 TFLOPS
3.315 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
205.8 GFLOPS
828.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
GB207
Tahiti
GPU Variant
GB207-300-A1
Tahiti PRO(215-0821056)
Architecture
Blackwell 2.0
GCN 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
5 nm
28 nm
Transistors
16.9 billion
4.313 billion
Die Size
Unknown
352 mm²

Board Design

TDP
130W
200W
Suggested PSU
300 W
550 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1b3x DisplayPort 2.1b
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.4
1.2
CUDA
12.0
-
Shader Model
6.8
5.1