GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop vs Radeon RX 6500 XT

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Review

GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop
Radeon RX 6500 XT
Gaming
31
16
Workstation
35
22
AI/ML
29
17
Energy Efficiency
67
61
Quick Comparison Final Score
38
19
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Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages between GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop and Radeon RX 6500 XT

Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop

  • + Blackwell 2.0 architecture
  • + GB207 codename
  • + 8GB GDDR7 memory
  • + PCIe 5.0 x16 interface

Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 6500 XT

  • + RDNA 2.0 architecture
  • + Navi 24 codename
  • + 4GB GDDR6 memory
  • + PCIe 4.0 x4 interface

Pros & Cons

GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop
  • Hardware ray tracing support
  • DLSS upscaling support
  • Dedicated AI tensor cores
  • Limited gaming performance at higher resolutions

"A entry-level Nvidia GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop graphics card with modest workstation performance (35/100). Suited for casual gaming and basic graphics tasks."

Radeon RX 6500 XT
  • Hardware ray tracing support
  • Dedicated AI tensor cores
  • Limited gaming performance at higher resolutions
  • No DLSS upscaling support

"A budget AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT graphics card with limited performance overall. Suited for casual gaming and basic graphics tasks."

Gaming Performance

Forza Horizon 5

1080p High
68
43
GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop Radeon RX 6500 XT

The Witcher 3

1080p High
98
49
GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop Radeon RX 6500 XT

Counter-Strike 2

1080p High
133
69
GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop Radeon RX 6500 XT

Far Cry 6

1080p High
81
54
GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop Radeon RX 6500 XT

Hogwarts Legacy

1080p High
56
27
GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop Radeon RX 6500 XT

Call of Duty

1080p High
71
45
GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop Radeon RX 6500 XT

Ghost of Tsushima

1080p High
49
29
GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop Radeon RX 6500 XT

Cyberpunk 2077

1080p High
63
34
GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop Radeon RX 6500 XT

Tomb Raider

1080p High
95
59
GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop Radeon RX 6500 XT
FPS Table
GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop Radeon RX 6500 XT
1080p High1080p Ultra1440p Ultra4K Ultra 1080p High1080p Ultra1440p Ultra4K Ultra
Forza Horizon 5 68 — — — 43 — — —
The Witcher 3 98 — — — 49 — — —
Counter-Strike 2 133 — — — 69 — — —
Far Cry 6 81 — — — 54 — — —
Hogwarts Legacy 56 — — — 27 — — —
Call of Duty 71 — — — 45 — — —
Ghost of Tsushima 49 — — — 29 — — —
Cyberpunk 2077 63 — — — 34 — — —
Tomb Raider 95 — — — 59 — — —
Average FPS 79——— 45———
Average FPS by Resolution
GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop Radeon RX 6500 XT
1080p High 99 59
1080p Ultra 79 45
1440p Ultra 57 29
4K Ultra 31 15
Margin of Error Low Low

Benchmarks

3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop +100%
9532
Radeon RX 6500 XT
4764
GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop Radeon RX 6500 XT
Time Spy 9528 4943
Solar Bay 42379 20002
Port Royal 5774 368
Fire Strike 25853 15575
Wild Life Extreme 17822 8989
Night Raid 90582 65384
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop +49%
14357
Radeon RX 6500 XT
9632
GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop Radeon RX 6500 XT
G2D Mark 760 817
DirectX 11 128 FPS 90 FPS
DirectX 12 67 FPS 38 FPS
GPU Compute 5169 Ops/s 4342 Ops/s
Blender
Blender GPU
GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop +598%
2952.19
Radeon RX 6500 XT
422.78

Specifications

GeekBench 6 OpenCL
Specification GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop ↗ Radeon RX 6500 XT ↗
GB6 Compute Score 91033 53081
Background Blur 154.5 img/sec 130.3 img/sec
Face Detection 94.6 img/sec 70.1 img/sec
Horizon Detection 3.36 Gpixels/sec 1.59 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 4.21 Gpixels/sec 2.21 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 4.26 Gpixels/sec 2.02 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 1.07 Gpixels/sec 0.65 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 414.3 Gpixels/sec 223 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 13519.1 FPS 7470.5 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
GeekBench 6 ML
Specification GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop ↗ Radeon RX 6500 XT ↗
GB6 ML Single Precision 16186 10359
GB6 ML Half Precision 31589 12861
GB6 ML Quantized 13082 7842
Image Classification (SP) 6724 3867
Image Segmentation (HP) 20455 5136
Image Super Resolution (Q) 17332 11758
Face Detection (HP) 37078 14844
Pose Estimation (Q) 68680 42787
Text Classification (SP) 2764 1986
Machine Translation (HP) 5076 2665
Object Detection (SP) 8520 4251
Depth Estimation (Q) 32304 19707
Style Transfer (SP) 110367 101802
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
General
Specification GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop ↗ Radeon RX 6500 XT ↗
Vendor Nvidia Amd
Build Discrete Discrete
Released 24-Jun-25 19-Jan-22
Case Laptop Desktop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment Mid-range Mid-range
Architecture Blackwell 2.0 RDNA 2.0
GPU Codename GB207 Navi 24
Recommended CPU -Intel Core Ultra 5 245HXor above -Intel Core i5 12400or above
Graphics Processing Unit
Specification GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop ↗ Radeon RX 6500 XT ↗
Base Clock 1020-1500 MHz (configurable) 2310 MHz
Boost Clock 1500-2662 MHz (configurable) 2815 MHz
Shading Units 2560 1024
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 80 64
Render Output Units (ROPs) 32 32
Compute Units (Pipelines) 20
Tensor Cores 80 No
Ray-tracing Cores 20 16
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 32MB shared 1024KB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
Raw Performance
Specification GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop ↗ Radeon RX 6500 XT ↗
Pixel Fill Rate 48-85 GPixel/s 90 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 120-213 GTexel/s 180 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32) 7.7-13.6 TFLOPS 5.8 TFLOPS
Physical
Specification GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop ↗ Radeon RX 6500 XT ↗
Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x4
TGP 35-115 W (configurable) 107 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 5 nm 6 nm
Die Size 149 mm² 107 mm²
Transistor Count 16.9 billion 5 billion
Transistor Density 113.42 MTr/mm² 46.73 MTr/mm²
Max. Temperature
Memory
Specification GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop ↗ Radeon RX 6500 XT ↗
Memory Type GDDR7 GDDR6
API
Specification GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop ↗ Radeon RX 6500 XT ↗
DirectX 12.2 12
Vulkan 1.4 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3 2.2
CUDA 12
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS DLSS 4 No
DisplayPort 2.1b 1.4a

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