NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

584 points

5591 points

857% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

13 FPS

135 FPS

122 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

11 FPS

66 FPS

55 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

10 FPS

95 FPS

85 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

9 FPS

52 FPS

43 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1232 points

2317 points

88% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

139.59 points

2880.41 points

1963% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

11578 points

97092 points

738% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

9535 points

91845 points

863% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1097 MHz

2317 MHz

111% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1176 MHz

2572 MHz

118% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

Identical

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

80.19 GB/s

320 GB/s

299% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

65 W

100% significantly lower TDP

130 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

18.82 Gigapixels/s

82.3 Gigapixels/s

337% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

47.04 Gigatexels/s

205.8 Gigatexels/s

337% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

640

2560

300% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

100% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

316th of 597

91st of 597

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 March

2025 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 960M vs GeForce RTX 5050 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 5050 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 960M in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 5050 has a significantly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce RTX 5050 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 960M has a significantly lower TDP at 65 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 5050 at 130 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 5050 is faster than the GeForce GTX 960M.