GeForce RTX 5050 vs Radeon RX 6500 XT
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 117% higher spec score than Radeon RX 6500 XT (hardware on paper; game speed varies by maker) and launched at $50 more.
$249
Launch MSRP
$199(better)
16.7(better)
Spec score
7.7
13.2TFLOPS(better)
FP32 Compute
5.77TFLOPS
320GB/s(better)
Memory Bandwidth
144GB/s
8GB(better)
VRAM
4GB
2,572MHz
Boost Clock
2,815MHz(better)
128bit(better)
Memory Bus
64bit
130W
Board Power
107W(better)
PCIe 5.0 x8
Slot
PCIe 4.0 x4
DLSS 4.5 with Multi Frame Generation (up to 6x)
Upscaling
FSR 3.1 with Frame Generation
Jul 1, 2025
Released
Jan 19, 2022