GeForce RTX 5050 vs Radeon RX 590
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 31% higher spec score than Radeon RX 590 (hardware on paper; game speed varies by maker) and launched at $30 less.
$249(better)
Launch MSRP
$279
16.7(better)
Spec score
12.7
13.2TFLOPS(better)
FP32 Compute
7.12TFLOPS
320GB/s(better)
Memory Bandwidth
256GB/s
8GB
VRAM
8GB
2,572MHz(better)
Boost Clock
1,545MHz
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit(better)
130W(better)
Board Power
225W
PCIe 5.0 x8
Slot
PCIe 3.0 x16
DLSS 4.5 with Multi Frame Generation (up to 6x)
Upscaling
FSR upscaling (no frame generation)
Jul 1, 2025
Released
Nov 15, 2018