NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 12 GB 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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$ 541.95

$ 249.99

$ 291.96 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

12174 points

117% significantly better overall score

5591 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

289 FPS

154 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

135 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

141 FPS

75 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

66 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

206 FPS

111 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

95 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

114 FPS

62 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

52 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3862 points

66% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2317 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

5402.96 points

87% significantly higher Blender score

2880.41 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

168368 points

73% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

97092 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

158623 points

72% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

91845 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

2190 MHz

2317 MHz

5% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2430 MHz

2572 MHz

5% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

160 Bit

25% slightly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

360 GB/s

12% slightly higher memory bandwidth

320 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

300 W

130 W

130% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

194.4 Gigapixels/s

136% significantly higher pixel rate

82.3 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

544.3 Gigatexels/s

164% significantly higher texture rate

205.8 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

7168

180% significantly more shading units

2560

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

224

180% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

150% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

31st of 597

91st of 597

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 April

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 4070 vs GeForce RTX 5050 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 4070 beats the GeForce RTX 5050 in gaming performance.

In our comparison, 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. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 5050 has a significantly lower TDP at 130 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 4070 at 300 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 4070 is faster than the GeForce RTX 5050.