New benchmarks show that the new NVIDIA RTX 5050 outperformed the RTX 3060 and performed nearly on par with the previous-generation RTX 4060. The tests were conducted by Inno3D, a Hong Kong-based GPU maker that shares a parent company with Zotac.
The tests were published on Weibo and the person who highlighted them to the West was the user @haruzake5719 , from X, formerly Twitter.
The RTX 5050 is NVIDIA’s entry-level 50-series graphics card, with just 8GB of GDDR6 and a maximum TDP of 130 watts. Announced last week , the card arrives at the end of the month.
Test results
Inno3D’s tests show that the RTX 5050 outperformed the RTX 4060 in several 3DMark tests, including Steel Nomad, Speed ​​Way, Port Royal, Fire Strike Ultra, and Fire Strike. The RTX 4060 scored better in two tests, TimeSpy Extreme and TimeSpy, but the advantage is less than 10% .
The company then ran benchmarks on four games, and while the RTX 4060 outperformed the new GPU in every title, the FPS numbers weren’t that far off .
The overall results show that gamers on a budget will get an entry-level 50-series GPU that performs nearly as well as a previous-generation high-end GPU.
On the other hand, for RTX 4060 or even RTX 3060 users, the RTX 5050 may not be an upgrade . It’s designed for those using older GTX 10- or 16-series GPUs, or entry-level RTX 20-series graphics cards.
RTX 5050 Announcement
The RTX 5050 was announced last week and costs just $249, allowing gamers on a budget to buy the RTX 50-series family for 1080p gaming. The price is much more affordable than the RTX 5090 , which costs $28,000 .
While the RTX 5060 also has 8GB of VRAM, it uses GDDR7 and has more CUDA cores for better performance. It also has an MSRP of $299, and there’s a strong case for add-in card partners to offer their variants at higher prices.
The RTX 5050 competes directly with the Intel B580 , which was released in December last year, and is priced the same. However, the latter has 4GB more VRAM and a wider 192-bit memory bus. The RTX 5050 has a 128-bit memory bus.
NVIDIA has a near monopoly on the GPU market , and with the launch of the RTX 5050, it could undermine AMD’s strategy of being aggressive on pricing .
On Intel ‘s side , the B580 is an attractive alternative due to its larger VRAM. For users willing to save a little more, an alternative could be to get a 16GB RTX 5060 Ti.
In short, it’s so hard to compete with NVIDIA that other good options to NVIDIA’s card are older models from the green team .
| Nvidia RTX 5050 | Nvidia RTX 3060 | Nvidia RTX 4060 | Nvidia RTX 5060 | Intel Arc B580 | |
| Launch Price | US$ 249 (R$ 1357) | US$ 329* (R$ 1794) | US$ 299* (R$ 1630) | US$ 299 (R$ 1630) | US$ 249 (R$ 1357) |
| VRAM | 8GB | 8GB / 12GB | 8GB | 8GB | 12GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR6 | GDDR6 | GDDR6 | GDDR7 | GDDR6 |
| Cores | 2560 | 3584 | 3072 | 3840 | 2560 |
| Base Clock (GHz) | 2.31 | 1.32 | 1.83 | 2.28 | 1.70 |
| Clock Boost (GHz) | 2.57 | 1.77 | 2.46 | 2.50 | 2.67 |
| Processing (TFLOPS) | 13.2 | 12.74 | 15.11 | 19.2 | 27.34 |
| Interface | PCIe 5.0 x8 | PCIe 4.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x8 | PCIe 5.0 x8 | PCIe 4.0 x8 |
| TDP (W) | 130 | 170 | 115 | 145 | 190 |
*The price in dollars was used because it is more representative, since the inflation of the Real makes it difficult to compare with launch prices.
Source: Weibo , translated by @haruzake5719 and Tom’s Hardware .
