GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop VS GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop

We are comparing the GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop (NVIDIA) with the GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop (NVIDIA). Scroll down to the pros and cons of each graphics card, in-depth specs, and gaming benchmarks.

Last Updated: September 23, 2026

KEY DIFFERENCES OF GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop AND GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop

Here’s how GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop and GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop stack up against each other in their most impactful areas.

GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop: 1 advantage GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop: 5 advantages

Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop

1
  • 5% higher Boost Clock (2081 MHz vs 1976 MHz)

Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop

5
  • 42% higher 4K Ultra FPS (44 vs 31)
  • 35% higher 1440p Ultra FPS (77 vs 57)
  • 33% higher 1080p Ultra FPS (105 vs 79)
  • 26% higher 3DMark Time Spy score (12014 vs 9531)
  • 29% higher 3DMark Port Royal score (7421 vs 5773)

SPECIFICATION TABLE COMPARISON OF GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop AND GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop

Below is the detailed specification table comparing GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop and GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop.

Note: Highlighted specs mean that GPU wins that spec row.

If neither side is highlighted, it is a tie or there is not enough data for both specs.

Specification GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop
General Info
GPU Name: GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop
GPU Type: Laptop GPU Laptop GPU
Codename: GB207 GB206
Vendor: NVIDIA NVIDIA
Foundry: TSMC TSMC
Architecture: Blackwell 2.0 Blackwell 2.0
Generation: GeForce 50 Mobile GeForce 50 Mobile
Release Date: June 24, 2025 April 14, 2025
Board Design
Bus Interface: PCIe 5.0 x16 PCIe 5.0 x16
PCIe Version: 5.0 5.0
PCIe Lanes: 16 16
Process Size: 5 nm 5 nm
Transistors: 16.9 billion 21.9 billion
Density: 113.42 MTr/mm² 120.99 MTr/mm²
Die Size: 149 mm² 181 mm²
Total Graphics Power (TGP): 35-115 W 45-115 W
Graphics Processor
Compute Units: 20 26
Shading Units: 2560 3328
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs): 80 104
Render Output Units (ROPs): 32 48
Tensor Cores: 80 104
Ray Tracing Cores: 20 26
Base Clock: 1020-1500 MHz 952-1455 MHz
Boost Clock: 1500-2662 MHz 1455-2497 MHz
L1 Cache: 128 KB per cluster 128 KB per cluster
L2 Cache: 32 MB 32 MB
Raw Performance
Pixel Fill Rate: 48.00 GPixel/s 69.84 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate: 120.0 GTexel/s 151.3 GTexel/s
FP32 Performance: 7.680 TFLOPs 9.684 TFLOPs
Memory
Memory Type: GDDR7 GDDR7
Memory Size: 8 GB 8 GB
Memory Bus Width: 128-bit 128-bit
Memory Clock: 1750 MHz 1750 MHz
Effective Memory Speed: 24000 Mbps 24000 Mbps
Bandwidth: 384 GB/s 384 GB/s
APIs
DirectX: 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12 Ultimate (12_2)
Vulkan: 1.4 1.4
OpenGL: 4.6 4.6
OpenCL: 3.0 3.0
CUDA: 12.0 12.0
Ray Tracing: 1 1
DLSS: DLSS 4 DLSS 4
DisplayPort: 2.1b 2.1b
Gaming FPS
1080p Ultra (FPS): 79 105
1440p Ultra (FPS): 57 77
4K Ultra (FPS): 31 44
Benchmarks
3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite 9550 11870
Time Spy 9531 12014
Solar Bay 42451 52601
Port Royal 5773 7421
Fire Strike 25860 31698
Wild Life Extreme 17863 21586
Night Raid 89717 115861
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
Compute Score 91033 108121
Background Blur 154.5 img/sec 171 img/sec
Face Detection 94.6 img/sec 112.1 img/sec
Horizon Detection 3.36 Gpixels/sec 3.82 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 4.21 Gpixels/sec 5.06 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 4.26 Gpixels/sec 5.45 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 1.07 Gpixels/sec 1.24 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 414.3 Gpixels/sec 515.3 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 13519.1 16147.9
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark 14350 16882
G2D Mark 757 853
DirectX 11 128 163
DirectX 12 67 79
GPU Compute 5189 6265
Blender (Rendering)
Blender Score 2929 3539
GeekBench 6 ML
Single Precision 16186 18679
Half Precision 31589 35323
Quantized 13082 14707
Image Classification 6724 7525
Image Segmentation 20455 23623
Image Super Resolution 17332 19973
Face Detection 37078 41164
Pose Estimation 68680 77589
Text Classification 2764 2880
Machine Translation 5076 5811
Object Detection 8520 9966
Depth Estimation 32304 37206
Style Transfer 110367 136961
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
FurMark
1080p Vulkan 9722
1440p Vulkan 4221
1080p OpenGL 8574
1440p OpenGL 5951

Tip: indicates a higher-is-better spec advantage, while indicates a lower-is-better advantage.

PERFORMANCE CHART COMPARISON OF GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop AND GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop

The charts below visualize how GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop and GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop stack up in key performance metrics.

Radar Chart Comparison

Category scores overview (0 to 100)
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Bullet Chart Comparison

Market Top is the best score found. Colored bars are % of market top (0 to 100).
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Release Timeline of GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop and GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop

GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop
71 days
GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop

GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop was released 2 months, 10 days earlier than GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop.

Value For Money Calculator

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Domain Score Summary

Scores are generated by Comparigon's scoring algorithm and are intended as a high-level guide. They may not map 1-to-1 with the individual spec-by-spec comparisons shown in the table.

GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop
ALL
Overall
Difference: 3
Leads
GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop
68
GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop
71
Gaming Performance
Difference: 5
Leads
GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop
50
GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop
55
AI & Machine Learning
Difference: 4
Leads
GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop
50
GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop
54
Hardware Architecture
Difference: 1
Leads
GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop
81
GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop
82
Workstation
Difference: 2
Leads
GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop
54
GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop
56
Energy Efficiency
Difference: 0
Tie
GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop
100
GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop
100

Our Verdict

In conclusion, the GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop edges out overall compared to the GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop. Its strongest advantages are in Gaming Performance, AI & Machine Learning, Hardware Architecture and Workstation. They are still fairly close in Energy Efficiency.

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