NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop vs AMD Radeon RX 6500M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop vs AMD Radeon RX 6500M 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop

AMD Radeon RX 6500M

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4339 points

121% significantly better overall score

1956 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

92 FPS

33 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

59 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

64 FPS

24 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

40 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

90 FPS

40 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

51 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

50 FPS

27 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

23 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2969.98 points

671% significantly higher Blender score

385.01 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

85838 points

118% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

39238 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

80080 points

73% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

46114 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1020 MHz

2000 MHz

96% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1500 MHz

2400 MHz

60% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

384 GB/s

200% significantly higher memory bandwidth

128 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

50 W

Identical

50 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

48 Gigapixels/s

76.8 Gigapixels/s

60% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

120 Gigatexels/s

155.7 Gigatexels/s

29% slightly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

150% significantly more shading units

1024

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

25% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

115th of 597

214th of 597

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2025 June

2022 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR7

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop vs Radeon RX 6500M benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop beats the Radeon RX 6500M in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 6500M 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 Radeon RX 6500M also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, both the GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop and the Radeon RX 6500M have an identical TDP. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop is better than the Radeon RX 6500M.