GeForce RTX 5050 vs Radeon HD 6520G

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking1151not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency1.53no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Blackwell 2.0 (2025)
GPU code nameSumoGB207
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date7 December 2011 (13 years ago)2025

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores3202560
Core clock speed400 MHz2235 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2520 MHz
Number of transistors1,178 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology32 nm0 nm
Power consumption (TDP)35 Watt100 Watt
Texture fill rate6.400201.6
Floating-point processing power0.256 TFLOPS12.9 TFLOPS
ROPs832
TMUs1680
Tensor Coresno data80
Ray Tracing Coresno data20

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfaceIGPPCIe 5.0 x16
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 16-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeSystem SharedGDDR6
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared8 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared128 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared1750 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data224.0 GB/s
Shared memory+-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputs1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.06.7
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.23.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA-9.1

Pros & cons summary


Power consumption (TDP) 35 Watt 100 Watt

HD 6520G has 185.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 6520G and GeForce RTX 5050. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 6520G is a notebook card while GeForce RTX 5050 is a desktop one.


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