NVIDIA GeForce MX150 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

Compare NVIDIA GeForce MX150 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

640 points

5591 points

773% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

14 FPS

135 FPS

121 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

10 FPS

66 FPS

56 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

8 FPS

52 FPS

44 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

990 points

2317 points

134% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

86.10 points

2880.41 points

3245% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

10175 points

97092 points

854% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

9382 points

91845 points

878% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1469 MHz

2317 MHz

57% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1532 MHz

2572 MHz

67% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

64 Bit

128 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

48.06 GB/s

320 GB/s

565% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

25 W

420% significantly lower TDP

130 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

24.51 Gigapixels/s

82.3 Gigapixels/s

235% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

36.77 Gigatexels/s

205.8 Gigatexels/s

459% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384

2560

566% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

233% 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

310th of 597

91st of 597

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 May

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

4.6

GeForce MX150 vs GeForce RTX 5050 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 5050 beats the GeForce MX150 in gaming performance.

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: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the GeForce MX150 has a significantly lower TDP at 25 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 5050 at 130 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 5050 over the GeForce MX150.