GeForce RTX 5050 vs Radeon HD 6790
NVIDIA · Released Jul 1, 2025
GeForce RTX 5050
- SlotPCIe 5.0 x8
- PCIe 5.0 x8: Full-size card wired for 8 lanes; in a PCIe 4.0 or 3.0 slot it gets less bandwidth.
- FP32 Compute
- 13.2TFLOPS
- Memory Bandwidth
- 320GB/s
- VRAM
- 8GB
- Boost Clock
- 2,572MHz
- Memory Bus
- 128bit
- Board Power
- 130W
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GeForce RTX 5050 has about a 377% higher spec score than Radeon HD 6790 (hardware on paper; game speed varies by maker) and launched at $100 more.
$249
Launch MSRP
$149(better)
16.7(better)
Spec score
3.5
13.2TFLOPS(better)
FP32 Compute
1.34TFLOPS
320GB/s(better)
Memory Bandwidth
134.4GB/s
8GB(better)
VRAM
1GB
2,572MHz(better)
Boost Clock
840MHz
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit(better)
130W(better)
Board Power
150W
PCIe 5.0 x8
Slot
PCIe 2.0 x16
DLSS 4.5 with Multi Frame Generation (up to 6x)
Upscaling
No official FSR support
Jul 1, 2025
Released
Apr 5, 2011