Component comparison

GeForce GTX 1650 vs GeForce RTX 5050

GeForce GTX 1650 vs GeForce RTX 5050 — detailed GPU comparison: performance, gaming FPS, specifications.

Advantages

A GeForce GTX 1650
  • + Energy efficiency (+2.1)
  • + Normalized score (+12.0)
B GeForce RTX 5050
  • + Release year (+5)
  • + VRAM (GB) (+4 GB)
  • + Bandwidth (GB/s) (+192 GB/s)
  • + TGP / TDP (W) (+65 W)
  • + Lithography (nm) (-9 nm)
  • + Transistors (M) (+12,200M)
  • + Die size (mm²) (+51 mm²)
  • + CUDA cores (+1536)
  • + TMUs (+16)
  • + FP32 performance (TFLOPS) (+10.87 TFLOPS)
  • + Pixel fill rate (GPixel/s) (+29.02 GPixel/s)
  • + Texture fill rate (GTexel/s) (+112.56 GTexel/s)
  • + PassMark (overall) (+6951)

Detailed spec comparison

Spec Component A
GeForce GTX 1650
Component B
GeForce RTX 5050
Release year 2020 2025 (+5)
VRAM (GB) 4 GB 8 GB (+4 GB)
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory clock (MHz) 1500 MHz —
Bandwidth (GB/s) 128 GB/s 320 GB/s (+192 GB/s)
Memory bus (bit) 128 bit 128 bit
TGP / TDP (W) 50 W 115 W (+65 W)
Lithography (nm) 12 nm 3 nm (-9 nm)
Transistors (M) 4,700M 16,900M (+12,200M)
Die size (mm²) 200 mm² 149 mm² (+51 mm²)
Base clock (MHz) — —
Boost clock (MHz) — —
CUDA cores 1,024 2,560 (+1536)
TMUs 64 80 (+16)
ROPs 32 32
RT cores — 20
Tensor cores — 80
FP32 performance (TFLOPS) 2.30 TFLOPS 13.17 TFLOPS (+10.87 TFLOPS)
Pixel fill rate (GPixel/s) 53.28 GPixel/s 82.30 GPixel/s (+29.02 GPixel/s)
Texture fill rate (GTexel/s) 93.24 GTexel/s 205.80 GTexel/s (+112.56 GTexel/s)
Energy efficiency 26.4 (+2.1) 24.3
PassMark (overall) 7,116 14,067 (+6951)
3DMark Time Spy 3,488 —
3DMark Fire Strike 9,313 —
Geekbench OpenCL 39,153 —
Geekbench Vulkan 36,248 —
Normalized score 53.3 (+12.0) 41.3

Only in component B

DLSS ReBAR ray_tracing

In both

CUDA

FPS in games (1080p)

Game GeForce GTX 1650 GeForce RTX 5050 Delta
CS:GO 240 FPS 240 FPS ≈
GTA V 140 FPS 140 FPS ≈
Overwatch 240 FPS 240 FPS ≈
PUBG 140 FPS 140 FPS ≈

Specs from public sources (PassMark, Geekbench). FPS measured at 1080p medium settings.

Based on the comparison: GeForce RTX 5050 wins 13 of the comparable criteria. The choice depends on your use case.

🤔 How to choose

Universal advice for any use case.

  • Reliability vs price: reliability (median 50) ↔ price (median 385.1).
  • Weight vs CPU: mobility (median 48) ↔ overall performance (median 49.8).
  • Upgradeability vs battery: upgradability (median 50) ↔ battery life (median 2.8).