GeForce RTX 2050 vs GeForce GTX 1080

GeForce RTX 2050
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR6DESKTOP
Release date: UNRELEASED
GeForce RTX 2050
GeForce GTX 1080
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR5XDESKTOP
Release date: 27 May 2016
GeForce GTX 1080

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce RTX 2050

60 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 1080 .
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports DirectX Raytracing (DXR)
Supports Deep Learning Super-Sampling (DLSS)

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1080

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 1080

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1080

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce RTX 2050GeForce GTX 1080
GPU NameTU107 (TU107)vsGP104 (GP104-400-A1)
Fab Process12 nmvs16 nm
Die Size0 mm²vs314 mm²
Transistorsunknownvs7,200 million
Shaders896vs2560
Compute Units14vs20
Core clock1515 MHzvs1607 MHz
ROPs32vs64
TMUs56vs160

Memory Configuration

GeForce RTX 2050GeForce GTX 1080
Memory TypeGDDR6vsGDDR5X
Bus Width128 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1750 MHz
14000 MHz effective
vs1251 MHz
10008 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs8192 Mb

Additional details

GeForce RTX 2050GeForce GTX 1080
TDP120 wattsvs180 watts
Release DateUNRELEASEDvs27 May 2016

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce RTX 2050
    54.24 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 1080
    102.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce RTX 2050
    94.92 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 1080
    257.10 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce RTX 2050
    224.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 1080
    320.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce RTX 2050
    3037.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 1080
    8228.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better