Component comparison

GeForce RTX 5050 vs GeForce RTX 2060

GeForce RTX 5050 vs GeForce RTX 2060 — detailed GPU comparison: performance, gaming FPS, specifications.

Advantages

A GeForce RTX 5050
  • + Release year (+6)
  • + VRAM (GB) (+2 GB)
  • + Lithography (nm) (-9 nm)
  • + Transistors (M) (+6,100M)
  • + Die size (mm²) (+296 mm²)
  • + CUDA cores (+640)
  • + FP32 performance (TFLOPS) (+6.72 TFLOPS)
  • + Pixel fill rate (GPixel/s) (+1.66 GPixel/s)
  • + Texture fill rate (GTexel/s) (+4.20 GTexel/s)
  • + Energy efficiency (+6.2)
B GeForce RTX 2060
  • + Bandwidth (GB/s) (+16 GB/s)
  • + Memory bus (bit) (+64 bit)
  • + TMUs (+40)
  • + ROPs (+16)
  • + RT cores (+10)
  • + Tensor cores (+160)
  • + PassMark (overall) (+27)
  • + Normalized score (+25.0)

Detailed spec comparison

Spec Component A
GeForce RTX 5050
Component B
GeForce RTX 2060
Release year 2025 (+6) 2019
VRAM (GB) 8 GB (+2 GB) 6 GB
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory clock (MHz) — 1750 MHz
Bandwidth (GB/s) 320 GB/s 336 GB/s (+16 GB/s)
Memory bus (bit) 128 bit 192 bit (+64 bit)
TGP / TDP (W) 115 W 115 W
Lithography (nm) 3 nm (-9 nm) 12 nm
Transistors (M) 16,900M (+6,100M) 10,800M
Die size (mm²) 149 mm² (+296 mm²) 445 mm²
Base clock (MHz) — —
Boost clock (MHz) — —
CUDA cores 2,560 (+640) 1,920
TMUs 80 120 (+40)
ROPs 32 48 (+16)
RT cores 20 30 (+10)
Tensor cores 80 240 (+160)
FP32 performance (TFLOPS) 13.17 TFLOPS (+6.72 TFLOPS) 6.45 TFLOPS
Pixel fill rate (GPixel/s) 82.30 GPixel/s (+1.66 GPixel/s) 80.64 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate (GTexel/s) 205.80 GTexel/s (+4.20 GTexel/s) 201.60 GTexel/s
Energy efficiency 24.3 (+6.2) 18.1
PassMark (overall) 14,067 14,094 (+27)
3DMark Time Spy — 6,141
3DMark Fire Strike — 16,331
Geekbench OpenCL — 71,412
Geekbench Vulkan — 65,858
Normalized score 41.3 66.4 (+25.0)

Only in component A

ReBAR

In both

CUDA DLSS ray_tracing

FPS in games (1080p)

Game GeForce RTX 5050 GeForce RTX 2060 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 10 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).