GeForce RTX 5050 vs Radeon R7 260X
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 328% higher spec score than Radeon R7 260X (hardware on paper; game speed varies by maker) and launched at $110 more.
$249
Launch MSRP
$139(better)
16.7(better)
Spec score
3.9
13.2TFLOPS(better)
FP32 Compute
1.97TFLOPS
320GB/s(better)
Memory Bandwidth
104GB/s
8GB(better)
VRAM
2GB
2,572MHz(better)
Boost Clock
1,100MHz
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
130W
Board Power
115W(better)
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
Oct 8, 2013