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GeForce RTX 5050 vs Radeon HD 7970

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 106% higher spec score than Radeon HD 7970 (hardware on paper; game speed varies by maker) and launched at $300 less.

$249(better)
Launch MSRP
$549
16.7(better)
Spec score
8.1
13.2TFLOPS(better)
FP32 Compute
3.79TFLOPS
320GB/s(better)
Memory Bandwidth
264GB/s
8GB(better)
VRAM
3GB
2,572MHz(better)
Boost Clock
925MHz
128bit
Memory Bus
384bit(better)
130W(better)
Board Power
250W
PCIe 5.0 x8
Slot
PCIe 3.0 x16
DLSS 4.5 with Multi Frame Generation (up to 6x)
Upscaling
No official FSR support
Jul 1, 2025
Released
Jan 9, 2012