NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

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

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 294.49
$ 249.99
$ 44.50 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

8206 points
49% significantly better overall score
5507 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

192 FPS
57 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
135 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

95 FPS
30 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
66 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

139 FPS
45 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
94 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

75 FPS
24 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
52 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3149 points
35% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score
2317 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

3690.41 points
28% slightly higher Blender score
2880.41 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

126840 points
30% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
97092 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

120026 points
30% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
91845 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

2280 MHz
2317 MHz
1% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2497 MHz
2572 MHz
3% 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

448 GB/s
40% slightly higher memory bandwidth
320 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

145 W
130 W
11% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

119.9 Gigapixels/s
45% significantly higher pixel rate
82.3 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

299.6 Gigatexels/s
45% significantly higher texture rate
205.8 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3840
49% significantly more shading units
2560

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

51st of 586
91st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2025 May
2025 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR7
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 5060 vs GeForce RTX 5050 benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 5060 graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 5050 in our tests.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 5060 is better than the GeForce RTX 5050.

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