NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

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

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Price

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$ 349.99
$ 249.99
$ 100.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4840 points
5591 points
15% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

106 FPS
135 FPS
29 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

66 FPS
Identical
66 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

75 FPS
95 FPS
20 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

50 FPS
52 FPS
2 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

7528 points
224% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
2317 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1636.29 points
2880.41 points
76% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

76744 points
97092 points
26% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

72572 points
91845 points
26% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1365 MHz
2317 MHz
69% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1680 MHz
2572 MHz
53% significantly 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

336 GB/s
5% slightly higher memory bandwidth
320 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

160 W
130 W
23% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

80.64 Gigapixels/s
82.3 Gigapixels/s
2% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

201.6 Gigatexels/s
205.8 Gigatexels/s
2% slightly higher texture rate

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
80

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

48
49% significantly more render output processors
32

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

106th of 597
91st of 597

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January
2025 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

GeForce RTX 2060 vs GeForce RTX 5050 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 5050 beats the GeForce RTX 2060 in gaming performance.

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

In addition, the GeForce RTX 5050 has a slightly lower TDP at 130 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 2060 at 160 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 5050 over the GeForce RTX 2060.

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