GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop vs Radeon RX 6850M XT

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Review

GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop
Radeon RX 6850M XT
Gaming
31
33
Workstation
35
39
AI/ML
29
35
Energy Efficiency
67
42
Quick Comparison Final Score
38
36
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Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages between GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop and Radeon RX 6850M 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 6850M XT

  • + RDNA 2.0 architecture
  • + Navi 22 codename
  • + 12GB GDDR6 memory
  • + PCIe 4.0 x16 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 6850M XT
  • Generous 12GB VRAM
  • Hardware ray tracing support
  • Limited gaming performance at higher resolutions
  • No DLSS upscaling support

"A entry-level AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT graphics card with modest workstation performance (39/100). Suited for casual gaming and basic graphics tasks."

Gaming Performance

Forza Horizon 5

1080p High
68
80
GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop Radeon RX 6850M XT

The Witcher 3

1080p High
98
105
GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop Radeon RX 6850M XT

Counter-Strike 2

1080p High
133
141
GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop Radeon RX 6850M XT

Far Cry 6

1080p High
81
98
GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop Radeon RX 6850M XT

Hogwarts Legacy

1080p High
56
64
GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop Radeon RX 6850M XT

Call of Duty

1080p High
71
95
GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop Radeon RX 6850M XT

Ghost of Tsushima

1080p High
49
67
GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop Radeon RX 6850M XT

Cyberpunk 2077

1080p High
63
70
GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop Radeon RX 6850M XT

Tomb Raider

1080p High
95
120
GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop Radeon RX 6850M XT
FPS Table
GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop Radeon RX 6850M XT
1080p High1080p Ultra1440p Ultra4K Ultra 1080p High1080p Ultra1440p Ultra4K Ultra
Forza Horizon 5 68 — — — 80 — — —
The Witcher 3 98 — — — 105 — — —
Counter-Strike 2 133 — — — 141 — — —
Far Cry 6 81 — — — 98 — — —
Hogwarts Legacy 56 — — — 64 — — —
Call of Duty 71 — — — 95 — — —
Ghost of Tsushima 49 — — — 67 — — —
Cyberpunk 2077 63 — — — 70 — — —
Tomb Raider 95 — — — 120 — — —
Average FPS 79——— 93———
Average FPS by Resolution
GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop Radeon RX 6850M XT
1080p High 99 118
1080p Ultra 79 93
1440p Ultra 57 65
4K Ultra 31 36
Margin of Error Low High

Benchmarks

3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop
9532
Radeon RX 6850M XT +2%
9708
GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop Radeon RX 6850M XT
Time Spy 9528 11092
Solar Bay 42379 45816
Port Royal 5774 5919
Fire Strike 25853 26592
Wild Life Extreme 17822 21716
Night Raid 90582 73832
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop
14357
Radeon RX 6850M XT +20%
17194
GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop Radeon RX 6850M XT
G2D Mark 760 652
DirectX 11 128 FPS 149 FPS
DirectX 12 67 FPS 79 FPS
GPU Compute 5169 Ops/s 6728 Ops/s
Blender
Blender GPU
GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop +105%
2952.19
Radeon RX 6850M XT
1438.44

Specifications

GeekBench 6 OpenCL
Specification GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop ↗ Radeon RX 6850M XT ↗
GB6 Compute Score 91033 101515
Background Blur 154.5 img/sec 217.9 img/sec
Face Detection 94.6 img/sec 142 img/sec
Horizon Detection 3.36 Gpixels/sec 3.42 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 4.21 Gpixels/sec 5.23 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 4.26 Gpixels/sec 4.02 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 1.07 Gpixels/sec 0.97 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 414.3 Gpixels/sec 429.7 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 13519.1 FPS 13653.9 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
GeekBench 6 ML
Specification GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop ↗ Radeon RX 6850M XT ↗
GB6 ML Single Precision 16186 20047
GB6 ML Half Precision 31589 20997
GB6 ML Quantized 13082 15383
Image Classification (SP) 6724 8455
Image Segmentation (HP) 20455 10479
Image Super Resolution (Q) 17332 23685
Face Detection (HP) 37078 28924
Pose Estimation (Q) 68680 101734
Text Classification (SP) 2764 2168
Machine Translation (HP) 5076 4554
Object Detection (SP) 8520 9084
Depth Estimation (Q) 32304 36761
Style Transfer (SP) 110367 209185
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
General
Specification GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop ↗ Radeon RX 6850M XT ↗
Vendor Nvidia Amd
Build Discrete Discrete
Released 24-Jun-25 4-Jan-22
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment Mid-range High-end
Architecture Blackwell 2.0 RDNA 2.0
GPU Codename GB207 Navi 22
Recommended CPU -Intel Core Ultra 5 245HXor above -AMD Ryzen 9 6900HXor above
Graphics Processing Unit
Specification GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop ↗ Radeon RX 6850M XT ↗
Base Clock 1020-1500 MHz (configurable) 2320 MHz
Boost Clock 1500-2662 MHz (configurable) 2180-2460 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 2560 2560
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 80 160
Render Output Units (ROPs) 32 64
Compute Units (Pipelines) 20 40
Tensor Cores 80
Ray-tracing Cores 20 40
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 32MB shared 3MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
Raw Performance
Specification GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop ↗ Radeon RX 6850M XT ↗
Pixel Fill Rate 48-85 GPixel/s 140-157 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 120-213 GTexel/s 349-394 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32) 7.7-13.6 TFLOPS 11.2-12.6 TFLOPS
Physical
Specification GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop ↗ Radeon RX 6850M XT ↗
Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
TGP 35-115 W (configurable) 130-165 W (configurable)
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 5 nm 7 nm
Die Size 149 mm² 335 mm²
Transistor Count 16.9 billion 17.2 billion
Transistor Density 113.42 MTr/mm² 51.34 MTr/mm²
Max. Temperature
Memory
Specification GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop ↗ Radeon RX 6850M XT ↗
Memory Type GDDR7 GDDR6
API
Specification GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop ↗ Radeon RX 6850M XT ↗
DirectX 12.2 12
Vulkan 1.4 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3 2.1
CUDA 12
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS DLSS 4 No
DisplayPort 2.1b 1.4

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