NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4339 points

6305 points

45% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

92 FPS

136 FPS

43 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

64 FPS

81 FPS

17 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

90 FPS

114 FPS

24 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

50 FPS

62 FPS

12 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2969.98 points

3522.98 points

18% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

85838 points

104383 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

80080 points

98514 points

23% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1020 MHz

7% slightly higher core clock speed

952 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1500 MHz

3% slightly higher boost clock speed

1455 MHz

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

384 GB/s

Identical

384 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

50 W

45 W

11% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

48 Gigapixels/s

69.84 Gigapixels/s

45% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

120 Gigatexels/s

151.3 Gigatexels/s

26% slightly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

3328

30% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

104

30% slightly 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

115th of 597

77th of 597

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2025 June

2025 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR7

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop vs GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop beats the GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop in gaming performance.

Our database shows that 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. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop has a slightly lower TDP at 45 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop at 50 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 5060 Laptop is faster than the GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop.