NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

Price

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$ 339.79

$ 249.99

$ 89.80 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

6713 points

20% slightly better overall score

5591 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

161 FPS

26 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

135 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

77 FPS

11 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

66 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

113 FPS

18 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

95 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

61 FPS

9 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

52 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2309 points

2317 points

0.35% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

3124.65 points

8% slightly higher Blender score

2880.41 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

101567 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

97092 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

99687 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

91845 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1925 MHz

2317 MHz

20% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2075 MHz

2572 MHz

23% slightly 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

288 GB/s

320 GB/s

11% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

200 W

130 W

53% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

132.8 Gigapixels/s

61% significantly higher pixel rate

82.3 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

381.8 Gigatexels/s

85% significantly higher texture rate

205.8 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

5888

129% significantly more shading units

2560

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

184

129% 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

72nd of 597

91st of 597

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 May

2025 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 4060 vs GeForce RTX 5050 comparison

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 4060 graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 5050 in our tests.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 5050 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 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 has a significantly lower TDP at 130 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 4060 at 200 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 4060 over the GeForce RTX 5050.