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First RTX 5050 benchmark surfaces online, here’s how it compares to the RTX 3050, RTX 4060, and more

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First RTX 5050 benchmark surfaces online, here’s how it compares to the RTX 3050, RTX 4060, and more
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Nvidia’s RTX 5050 will be launching in the second half of July, though current reports suggest that mainland China could be getting the GPU as soon as next week. That means there’s a small possibility RTX 5050 reviews appear online ahead of the worldwide release, as long as Nvidia releases drivers to test it on. That remains an uncertainty for now, but the fact that an RTX 5050 FurMark benchmark has appeared online suggests it could be a possibility.

The $249 budget graphics card is mostly aimed at the 1080p market. However, the first benchmark to surface online is a FurMark test at 4K – not ideal, but it’s the only result we’ve seen so far. It can be identified as a desktop card as the GPU is labeled 0DE-2D83 (GB207).

RTX 5050 gets FurMark 4K benchmark

As per Nvidia’s specs, the RTX 5050 features 2,560 CUDA Cores (the same as the RTX 3050) and a boost clock of 2.57 GHz, with 8GB GDDR6 memory – a contrast to the rest of the 50 series’ GDDR7 – and a 130W TGP.

Strangely, the clock speeds on this FurMark entry range between 2,896 and 2,940 MHz, but it could be an inaccurate reading, especially since it only reaches 39°C on the benchmark, far too low for a FurMark test. Either way, the 4K benchmark places the RTX 5050 somewhere between RTX 2060 and RTX 3050.

Nevertheless, we’ve compared the score against a few other GPUs below, based on FurMark’s 2160p (4K) charts.

Graphics cardFurMark (GL) 4K benchmark score
GeForce RTX 3060 (GA106)2,453 (40 FPS)
GeForce RTX 40602,166 (36 FPS)
GeForce RTX 20602,132 (35 FPS)
Radeon RX 66002,091 (34 FPS)
GeForce RTX 50501,978 (32 FPS)
GeForce GTX 1070 Ti1,797 (29 FPS)
GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop (28E1)1,736 (28 FPS)
GeForce RTX 30501,692 (28 FPS)
Source: GPU Magick

We have to note that you should always take these early benchmarks with a grain of salt, especially considering the strange clock speed and temps being reported here. It is also being tested with an older Intel Core i7-9700 CPU, which will lack support for the latest PCIe 5.0 standard. However, as our first indication of the performance of the upcoming RTX 5050, it’s worth seeing where to falls in the GPU hierarchy right now.


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