GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop vs GeForce RTX 5090

[ VERDICT ] Winner: GeForce RTX 5090 (96/100)

GeForce RTX 5090 leads overall with a score of 96/100 compared to GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop (38/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop GeForce RTX 5090
Efficiency 66.0 Average WINNER 48.0 Poor
Gaming 31.0 Poor 100.0 Excellent WINNER

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop GeForce RTX 5090
Fire Strike 25862 87569
Night Raid 91049 206648
Port Royal 5777 38202
Solar Bay 42150 236689
Time Spy 9455 46873
Wild Life Extreme 17737 108751

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop GeForce RTX 5090
CUDA 12.0 12.0
DLSS DLSS 4 DLSS 4
DirectX 12.2 12.2
DisplayPort 2.1b 2.1b
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
Vulkan 1.4 1.4

Games

Games specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop GeForce RTX 5090
1080p High 99 299
1080p Ultra 79 254
1440p Ultra 57 207
4K Ultra 31 125
CoD: Modern Warfare III 81715231 334322260184
Counter-Strike 2 1771339446 36326520299
Cyberpunk 2077 68633816 26123316077
Far Cry 6 91816633 237202190121
Forza Horizon 5 112685940 336247233187
Ghost of Tsushima 62493420 221185175113
Hogwarts Legacy 66563718 24919916697
Margin of Error Low Low
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 106956738 329302238128
The Witcher 3 124987039 364327237123

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop GeForce RTX 5090
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 32304 85572
Face Detection (HP) 37078 114685
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 6724 18948
Image Segmentation (HP) 20455 55109
Image Super Resolution (Q) 17332 58478
Machine Translation (HP) 5076 8184
Object Detection (SP) 8520 27802
Pose Estimation (Q) 68680 344729
Style Transfer (SP) 110367 687080
Text Classification (SP) 2764 4464

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop GeForce RTX 5090
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 154.5 img/sec 333 img/sec
Edge Detection 4.21 Gpixels/sec 33.7 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 94.6 img/sec 298.5 img/sec
Feature Matching 1.07 Gpixels/sec 2.53 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 4.26 Gpixels/sec 34.5 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 3.36 Gpixels/sec 21.7 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 13519.1 FPS 59146.9 FPS
Stereo Matching 414.3 Gpixels/sec 2850 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop GeForce RTX 5090
Architecture Blackwell 2.0 Blackwell 2.0
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Laptop Desktop
GPU Codename GB207 GB202-300
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Recommended CPU -Intel Core Ultra 5 245HXor above -Intel Core Ultra 9 285Kor above
Released June 24, 2025 January 7, 2025
Segment Mid-range High-end
Vendor Nvidia Nvidia
Launch price (MSRP) $1999

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop GeForce RTX 5090
Base Clock 1020-1500 MHz (configurable) 2017 MHz
Boost Clock 1500-2662 MHz (configurable) 2407 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 20 170
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 32MB shared 96MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores 20 170
Render Output Units (ROPs) 32 176
Shading Units 2560 21760
Tensor Cores 80 680
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 80 680

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop GeForce RTX 5090
Bus 128-bit 512-bit
ECC No No
Effective Memory Speed 24000 Mbps 28000 Mbps
Memory Clock 1500 MHz 1750 MHz
Memory Size 8 GB 32 GB
Memory Type GDDR7 GDDR7

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop GeForce RTX 5090
DirectX 11 127 FPS 341 FPS
DirectX 12 65 FPS 179 FPS
G2D Mark 738 1410
GPU Compute 4973 Ops/s 24360 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop GeForce RTX 5090
Die Size 149 mm² 750 mm²
Fabrication Process 5 nm 4 nm
Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 PCIe 5.0 x16
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
TGP 35-115 W (configurable) 575 W
Transistor Count 16.9 billion 92.2 billion
Transistor Density 113.42 MTr/mm² 122.93 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop GeForce RTX 5090
Pixel Fill Rate 48-85 GPixel/s 424 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 120-213 GTexel/s 1637 GTexel/s

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop GeForce RTX 5090
Date Benchmark
📘 2026-05-27(Fynni) GeekBench
📘 2026-07-20(lasu) GeekBench
📘 2026-08-03->Alterac GeekBench

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