NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 Trails RTX 4060 but Leaps Ahead with Multi-Frame Generation

[AleksandarK]

Initial benchmarks shared on China's Weibo platform by INNO3D hinted that NVIDIA's upcoming GeForce RTX 5050 may not quite catch up to the GeForce RTX 4060 in raw performance. The leaked figures, which focused on a handful of 3DMark tests and a selection of game runs, showed the RTX 5050 lagging just a few percent behind its established last-gen mid-range sibling. While those early results did not cover a comprehensive range of titles, they suggested that the new card would fall slightly short of the RTX 4060's average frame rate and 1% low metrics when gaming at 1080p settings.

A more complete picture emerged from South Korea's Quasar Zone review of the Colorful iGame GeForce RTX 5050 Ultra OC White edition. In tests across fifteen popular 1080p games, the RTX 5050 delivered roughly 7% lower average frame rates and similar 1% low results compared to the RTX 4060. Even Intel's Arc B580 managed to edge it out by a small margin in those same trials. However, NVIDIA's Multi‑Frame Generation options dramatically change the story by reconstructing additional frames on the fly. When these technologies are enabled, the RTX 5050 not only leaves older-generation cards well behind but also overtakes the higher‑priced RTX 4060 Ti in several benchmarks. As we await more reviews to emerge, it will be interesting to see if the newest DLSS and MFG are sufficient for gamers to purchase the entry-level Blackwell GPU or opt for an older mid-range Ada Lovelace.



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[Dr. Dro]

Such a tiny chip. Shame the price is absolutely bananas, this could be such a good power efficient card if priced right. At $250-280, not so much.

 

[Bomby569]

Such a tiny chip. Shame the price is absolutely bananas, this could be such a good power efficient card if priced right. At $250-280, not so much.

there are no bad cards, just bad pricing. This all generation of cards is making this saying ever more relevant.

 

[Kwadratowicz]

If it could be used without the external power connector it could be great for really small builds for fun and older games. (I know it would make it even slower)
And the price is stupid.

 

[W1zzard]

Review sample is here already

 

[sLowEnd]

Review sample is here already

Did you buy it, or was it sent by a company?

 

[W1zzard]

Did you buy it, or was it sent by a company?

Provided by Gigabyte

 

[sLowEnd]

Provided by Gigabyte

Neat. I'm slightly surprised they were willing to sample these out

 

[kondamin]

Such a tiny chip. Shame the price is absolutely bananas, this could be such a good power efficient card if priced right. At $250-280, not so much.

So we can expect it in a nintendo switch 3 in 2035?

 

[Ruru]

If it could be used without the external power connector it could be great for really small builds for fun and older games. (I know it would make it even slower)
And the price is stupid.

I wouldn't be surprised if later there will be a cut-down model without the need of external power, like the 3050 6GB.

 

[yfn_ratchet]

AND IN COMES THE 3060TI WITH A STEEL CHAIR!

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Jokes aside, as much as I wanna like the 5050 for what it is, all I can think about is that this product is what the 4060 should have been years ago. If the 4060 came out for $250, people would be over the moon about it, but it's too little, too late. All this is now is a crappy second option if you can't find a B580 for the same price.

 

[Chaitanya]

Provided by Gigabyte

One with x8 physical slot?

 

[Fishymachine]

So translation: RTX 5050 gets edged out by 4060, but can hallucinate twice as fast

there are no bad cards, just bad pricing. This all generation of cards is making this saying ever more relevant.

The N24 chip (RX 6500XT) was a waste of sand. The ATi R600 series was bad, so was Fermi (GeForce 400), Intel Arrow Lake shows performance regression, same as Rocket Lake. Meanwhile Pentium 4 and AMD Bulldozer shat the bed seriously, and since we're at AMD CPUs, for some reasons(the IOD was kind of bad for 7000 series, and really needed an overhaul) Zen 5 is underwhelming, sometimes losing to their direct predecessor- the truly next gen V-cache gave the 9800X3D wings tho. And then there is mobile, FPGA, controllers and a million other chips.

 

[sLowEnd]

One with x8 physical slot?

All of the 5050 cards Gigabyte has listed on their site are x16 physical, x8 electrical

The N24 chip (RX 6500XT) was a waste of sand. The ATi R600 series was bad, so was Fermi (GeForce 400),

Fermi was fine. There's just a lot of bad press about the GTX 480 specifically, for being a rather hot and power hungry card for its time, but the same issue did not plague the other cards in the lineup.
Old reviews are still available on this website. You can see for example the GTX 470 performed well for its price and didn't consume anywhere near the same amount of power the 480 did.

ASUS GeForce GTX 470 Fermi Review

NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 470 was announced a few weeks back - now we got the first production sample of the card from ASUS. Compared to the GTX 480 we saw much more reasonable power consumption numbers as well as fan noise and heat.

www.techpowerup.com

Same thing with the GTX 460

ZOTAC GeForce GTX 460 1 GB Review

Zotac's GeForce GTX 460 is equipped with 1 GB of video memory and also brings in small improvements like an additional DisplayPort connector and better bundle at $229 which is no price increase from the price of other cards.

www.techpowerup.com

and the GTS 450

Axle GeForce GTS 450 OC 1 GB Review

AXLE's GeForce GTS 450 OC is a rock-solid implementation of the NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450. It uses both a custom PCB and cooling solution to deliver the maximum for your hard earned cash. The cooler is running quiet and offers low temperatures which make an excellent foundation for additional...

www.techpowerup.com

 

[Dr. Dro]

So we can expect it in a nintendo switch 3 in 2035?

It's hard to see that far out, since the NS2 probably still has 8+years in its lifecycle, but if the pattern holds, it should be something similar to this, considered NS1 is Maxwell and NS2 is Ampere. They seem to be using low end chips with ~2-3 generations old architectures by the time of the console's launch. If not this, definitely what will come after this with Rubin/Feynman architecture.

 

[AnarchoPrimitiv]

I've been saying it since frame gen first came our..... it is going to be used to muddy the water for consumers by making it more difficult to compare performance between products and across generations.

It has basically destroyed the "frame" as a universal unit of measurement as we csn no longer just assume that "all frames are equal".

 

[HD64G]

150-180€ is the sensible price range (depending on the cooler) to buy such a GPU in 2025.

 

[Ruru]

150-180€ is the sensible price range (depending on the cooler) to buy such a GPU in 2025.

Yet manufacturers still put overkill three-fan gigantic coolers for a low-end card like this. With something simple, these could be way cheaper.

 

[Bomby569]

Yet manufacturers still put overkill three-fan gigantic coolers for a low-end card like this. With something simple, these could be way cheaper.

or seeing things from another perspective, considering this thing costs at least 300 euros, it should come with 4 fans, full aluminium shroud, metal backplate and a free low end cpu to pair with

but most will have 2 fans probably i bet

 

[Dr. Dro]

MSI Cyclone is the most interesting model for low end cards IMO. They brought it back from the GTX 460 days. The 5060 version was already released, hope 5050 will follow soon.

https://www.msi.com/Graphics-Card/GeForce-RTX-5060-8G-CYCLONE

 

[Bomby569]

MSI Cyclone is the most interesting model for low end cards IMO. They brought it back from the GTX 460 days. The 5060 version was already released, hope 5050 will follow soon.

https://www.msi.com/Graphics-Card/GeForce-RTX-5060-8G-CYCLONE

not sure that is enough cooling, and for the price people are paying, that is a crime.

 

[TheGeekn°72]

So translation: RTX 5050 gets edged out by 4060, but can hallucinate twice as fast

I really don't like this article's title, it does not "leap ahead" because of MFG, it just has very tall/long crutches, that doesn't make it a better sprinter

since we're at AMD CPUs, for some reasons(the IOD was kind of bad for 7000 series, and really needed an overhaul) Zen 5 is underwhelming, sometimes losing to their direct predecessor- the truly next gen V-cache gave the 9800X3D wings tho.

I don't find Zen5 as underwhelming as people think it was, if that 5% better performance was at the same power draw, yes, it would have been pretty damn underwhelming, but it's a fact that the improved power efficiency is a damn decent feat, too bad not enough people see that... Throw in the 9950X3D with the crushing gaming and productivity performance that it shows, making it effectively a 9800X3D and a 285K in a single package and you've got a winner, a pricey one for sure but Intel was quite familiar with these too with their XX900K(S) after all

 

[Rightness_1]

Fake frames don't count unless you have at least a base framerate of 60, and this card will struggle to do that in anything over 720p in a modern game. Awful rip-off card.

 

[LittleBro]

RTX 5050 should have had MSRP of $179 at most.

 

[Prime2515102]

I wish the whole world would get together and stop buying GPU's entirely for like a month. The prices would drop like a rock.