GeForce RTX 5050 vs Radeon RX 6500M

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking273not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency27.63no data
ArchitectureRDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)Blackwell 2.0 (2025)
GPU code nameNavi 24GB207
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date4 January 2022 (2 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 cores10242560
Core clock speed2000 MHz2235 MHz
Boost clock speed2400 MHz2520 MHz
Number of transistors5,400 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology6 nm0 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt100 Watt
Texture fill rate153.6201.6
Floating-point processing power4.915 TFLOPS12.9 TFLOPS
ROPs3232
TMUs6480
Tensor Coresno data80
Ray Tracing Cores1620

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).

Laptop sizemedium sizedno data
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x4PCIe 5.0 x16
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 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 typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount4 GB8 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed2250 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth144.0 GB/s224.0 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.

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.66.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.23.0
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA-9.1

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 8 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 100 Watt

RX 6500M has 100% lower power consumption.

RTX 5050, on the other hand, has a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 6500M and GeForce RTX 5050. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX 6500M is a notebook card while GeForce RTX 5050 is a desktop one.


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AMD Radeon RX 6500M
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