NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3514 points

4302 points

22% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

75 FPS

95 FPS

20 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

52 FPS

64 FPS

12 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

56 FPS

91 FPS

35 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

37 FPS

50 FPS

13 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1382.74 points

2969.98 points

114% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

64897 points

85838 points

32% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

59548 points

80080 points

34% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

975 MHz

1020 MHz

4% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1185 MHz

1500 MHz

26% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

264 GB/s

384 GB/s

45% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

65 W

50 W

30% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

56.88 Gigapixels/s

18% slightly higher pixel rate

48 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

142.2 Gigatexels/s

18% slightly higher texture rate

120 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1920

2560

33% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120

49% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

138th of 594

117th of 594

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 January

2025 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR7

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q vs GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop beats the GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop has a slightly lower TDP at 50 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q at 65 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop is faster than the GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q.