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GeForce RTX 5050 vs GeForce GTX 650

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 596% higher spec score than GeForce GTX 650 (hardware on paper; game speed varies by maker) and launched at $140 more.

$249
Launch MSRP
$109(better)
16.7(better)
Spec score
2.4
13.2TFLOPS(better)
FP32 Compute
0.81TFLOPS
320GB/s(better)
Memory Bandwidth
80GB/s
8GB(better)
VRAM
1GB
2,572MHz(better)
Boost Clock
1,058MHz
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
130W
Board Power
64W(better)
PCIe 5.0 x8
Slot
PCIe 3.0 x16
DLSS 4.5 with Multi Frame Generation (up to 6x)
Upscaling
No DLSS
Jul 1, 2025
Released
Sep 13, 2012