Component comparison

GeForce RTX 5070 vs GeForce RTX 5050

GeForce RTX 5070 vs GeForce RTX 5050 — detailed GPU comparison: performance, gaming FPS, specifications.

Advantages

A GeForce RTX 5070
  • + Bandwidth (GB/s) (+352 GB/s)
  • + Memory bus (bit) (+64 bit)
  • + Transistors (M) (+14,200M)
  • + CUDA cores (+3584)
  • + TMUs (+112)
  • + ROPs (+48)
  • + RT cores (+28)
  • + Tensor cores (+112)
  • + FP32 performance (TFLOPS) (+17.70 TFLOPS)
  • + Pixel fill rate (GPixel/s) (+118.70 GPixel/s)
  • + Texture fill rate (GTexel/s) (+276.50 GTexel/s)
  • + PassMark (overall) (+5008)
  • + Normalized score (+28.2)
B GeForce RTX 5050
  • + TGP / TDP (W) (+15 W)
  • + Lithography (nm) (-1 nm)
  • + Die size (mm²) (+114 mm²)
  • + Energy efficiency (+3.0)

Detailed spec comparison

Spec Component A
GeForce RTX 5070
Component B
GeForce RTX 5050
Release year 2025 2025
VRAM (GB) 8 GB 8 GB
Memory type GDDR7 GDDR6
Memory clock (MHz) 2000 MHz —
Bandwidth (GB/s) 672 GB/s (+352 GB/s) 320 GB/s
Memory bus (bit) 192 bit (+64 bit) 128 bit
TGP / TDP (W) 100 W 115 W (+15 W)
Lithography (nm) 4 nm 3 nm (-1 nm)
Transistors (M) 31,100M (+14,200M) 16,900M
Die size (mm²) 263 mm² 149 mm² (+114 mm²)
Base clock (MHz) — —
Boost clock (MHz) — —
CUDA cores 6,144 (+3584) 2,560
TMUs 192 (+112) 80
ROPs 80 (+48) 32
RT cores 48 (+28) 20
Tensor cores 192 (+112) 80
FP32 performance (TFLOPS) 30.87 TFLOPS (+17.70 TFLOPS) 13.17 TFLOPS
Pixel fill rate (GPixel/s) 201.00 GPixel/s (+118.70 GPixel/s) 82.30 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate (GTexel/s) 482.30 GTexel/s (+276.50 GTexel/s) 205.80 GTexel/s
Energy efficiency 21.3 24.3 (+3.0)
PassMark (overall) 19,075 (+5008) 14,067
3DMark Time Spy — —
3DMark Fire Strike 34,949 —
Geekbench OpenCL — —
Geekbench Vulkan — —
Normalized score 69.6 (+28.2) 41.3

In both

CUDA DLSS ReBAR ray_tracing

FPS in games (1080p)

Game GeForce RTX 5070 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 5070 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).