TECH NEWS – In comparison, Nvidia’s older card could not outperform the RTX 5050, even with custom water cooling and overclocking.

The once-legendary Nvidia GeForce graphics card has finally met its match, as the entry-level Blackwell GPU easily outperforms it at stock settings. Four generations later, Nvidia’s entry-tier chip can decisively outpace the GTX 1080 Ti, as TrashBench demonstrates in the video below. The GTX 1080 Ti, once the world’s top gaming GPU, now loses to the 50-tier card in modern games like Red Dead Redemption 2, Cyberpunk 2077, or Shadow of the Tomb Raider.

At base clock, the RTX 5050 usually pulls ahead, often by a wide margin. To push things further, TrashBench overclocked the GTX 1080 Ti (which featured 11 GB of GDDR5X VRAM, 3584 CUDA cores, and a 352-bit memory bus back in 2017!) with custom liquid cooling to see if it could finally beat the RTX 5050 (equipped with GDDR6 VRAM). Unfortunately, the GTX 1080 Ti only achieved a 3% performance gain, with the results unchanged across three different cards.

From boosting the performance gap to chasing world records, TrashBench proved the RTX 5050 can achieve impressive gains when overclocked. Using a custom AIO cooler, the card was pushed to a staggering 3.3 GHz, scoring 11,377 points—an RTX 5050 record in the 3DMark Time Spy Graphics test. The average uplift was 17.55%, which is remarkable, especially since no liquid cooling was used.

Though the GTX 1080 Ti was outclassed, it remains one of Nvidia’s best GPUs ever made—and a stellar value. Since then, Nvidia has shifted the playing field: what’s now a 50-class card was equal to a 30-series GPU a decade ago…

Source: WCCFTech