The time has come for one of the best NVIDIA GeForce GPUs ever created as the entry-level Blackwell card easily beats it at stock clocks.
GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Fails to Beat RTX 5050 Despite Overclocking; Offers Just 3% Improvement While RTX 5050 Achieves a Solid 17.5% Boost
Personally, it hurts to see the GTX 1080 Ti getting bodied by a low-class GPU, which didn’t even receive attention by gamers. The GeForce RTX 5050 is currently the slowest Blackwell RTX 50 series card in the whole lineup and doesn’t has much appeal. In front of the mighty GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, which served me for roughly 8 years, it might seem that the RTX 5050 couldn’t do much, but turns out that the Pascal flagship GPUs’ time has come.
After four generations, NVIDIA’s entry-level GPU is able to beat the GTX 1080 Ti fair and square as demonstrated by TrashBench. Once known to be the strongest gaming GPU on the planet, the GTX 1080 Ti now cannot beat the 50-class card in modern titles like RDR 2, Cyberpunk 2077, SOTR etc. At stock clocks, the RTX 5050 was already ahead in most of them, with a noticeable performance difference. So, the GTX 1080 Ti was overclocked using a custom liquid cooling solution to see if this can bring the 1080 Ti ahead of the 5050.
Unfortunately, the GTX 1080 Ti couldn’t bring more than 3% of performance boost and as per the overclocker, he tried to compare three different editions of GTX 1080 Ti with RTX 5050 and none of them could beat the latter. Not only him, but we were also disappointed with the results but I guess, it’s time for the GOAT to rest in peace. Nonetheless, when it comes to overclocking the RTX 5050, it did much better.
From increasing the performance gap to breaking world records, TrashBench showed that the RTX 5050 brings solid benefits with overclocking. He used a custom AIO CPU cooler for pushing the RTX 5050 to over a staggering 3.3 GHz, which resulted in 11377 points, the highest an RTX 5050 has achieved till now in 3DMark Time Spy Graphics. The average performance gain seen on the RTX 5050 was 17.55%, which is quite impressive, considering he didn’t deploy a liquid cooling solution.
The GTX 1080 Ti might be defeated, but it still remains one of the greatest NVIDIA GPUs ever created. Even though mine died just a few months ago, I really wouldn’t want to replace it with an RTX 5050, which has less VRAM, considering there are quite a good number of options in the RTX 50 and RX 9000 series to choose from.
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