GeForce RTX 5050 vs Radeon R9 290X
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 59% higher spec score than Radeon R9 290X (hardware on paper; game speed varies by maker) and launched at $300 less.
$249(better)
Launch MSRP
$549
16.7(better)
Spec score
10.5
13.2TFLOPS(better)
FP32 Compute
5.63TFLOPS
320GB/s
Memory Bandwidth
320GB/s
8GB(better)
VRAM
4GB
2,572MHz(better)
Boost Clock
1,000MHz
128bit
Memory Bus
512bit(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
Oct 24, 2013