Nvidia GTX 1080 vs Nvidia RTX 5050

Both have 8 GB of memory and the same bandwidth. The GTX 1080 is cheaper right now.

At a glance

Memory

Identical

GTX 1080: 8 GB

RTX 5050: 8 GB

Memory bandwidth

Identical

GTX 1080: 320 GB/s

RTX 5050: 320 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

43% cheaper on GTX 1080

GTX 1080: $0.04 /GPU/hr

RTX 5050: $0.07 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

Median price per GPU per hour by billing type, with the cheapest listing under it.

Billing	GTX 1080	RTX 5050	Difference
On-demand	-- /GPU/hr from $0.04	-- /GPU/hr from $0.07
Spot	-- /GPU/hr from $0.02	-- /GPU/hr from $0.03

Heads up: A provider's own page may quote a different figure, for example on tax, region or a promotion. A monthly-only plan shows a derived hourly rate. Medians are across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one. No median for on-demand and spot on the GTX 1080 and on-demand and spot on the RTX 5050: we only show one when at least 3 providers list the GPU on that billing type. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.

Price history

GTX 1080 vs RTX 5050 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	GTX 1080	RTX 5050	Difference
Memory
Capacity	8 GB GDDR5X	8 GB GDDR6	Identical
Bandwidth	320 GB/s	320 GB/s	Identical
Bus width	256-bit	128-bit	2x wider on GTX 1080
Compute · dense
FP4	Not supported	210.5 TFLOPS	RTX 5050 only
FP8	Not supported	52.6 TFLOPS	RTX 5050 only
FP16 / BF16		26.3 TFLOPS
INT8	Not supported	105.3 TOPS	RTX 5050 only
FP32	8.9 TFLOPS	13.2 TFLOPS	48% higher on RTX 5050
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	PCIe only
Board power	180 W	130 W	38% higher on GTX 1080
Released	Q2 2016	Q3 2025	9 years newer on RTX 5050
Precision
Supported formats	FP16FP32	FP4FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT8