NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 VS NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

nvidia

Brand

4GB GDDR5

Memory

1664

Cores

224.4 GB/s

Bandwidth

GeForce GTX 970

N/A Sep 2014 View Details
VS
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

nvidia

Brand

8GB GDDR6

Memory

2560

Cores

320 GB/s

Bandwidth

GeForce RTX 5050

$209.99 Jul 2025 View Details

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

GeForce GTX 970

$329 • Sep 2014

VS

GeForce RTX 5050

$249 • Jul 2025

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050
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Specs Comparison

SpecificationNVIDIA GeForce GTX 970NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050
4 GB8 GB
GDDR5GDDR6
148 W130 W
N/AN/A
1178 MHz2572 MHz
224.4 GB/s320 GB/s
28nm5nm
Maxwell 2.0Blackwell 2.0
16642560
N/A20
104 80
56 32
256-bit 128-bit
1753 MHz2500 MHz
65.97 GPixel/s82.3 GPixel/s
224.4 GTexel/s 205.8 GTexel/s
3.92 GFLOPS13.17 GFLOPS
2.00 MB24.00 MB
398 mm²149 mm²
5200 Million16900 Million
300 W300 W
2x 6-pin1x 8-pin
PCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 5.0 x8
12.112.2
1.31.4
4.64.6
TSMCTSMC

Comparison in Synthetic Benchmarks

3DMark Background
3DMark

3DMark Time Spy

Synthetic DirectX 12 benchmark that measures GPU performance in gaming workloads

Graphics Score

3574

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

10522 (+194%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

Geekbench Background
Geekbench

Geekbench 6

Cross-platform benchmark that measures GPU compute performance using OpenCL and Metal APIs

OpenCL Score

28989

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

92181 (+218%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

GFXBench Background
GFXBench

GFXBench 5.0

Cross-platform 3D graphics benchmark suite that measures GPU performance across different APIs

Aztec Ruins High (FPS)

46.8 FPS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

FPS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

Passmark Background
Passmark

PassMark G2D

Comprehensive 2D graphics benchmark that measures GPU performance in various graphics operations

G2D Mark

9637

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

17421 (+81%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

Game Benchmarks Comparison

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 Wins!

Based on 4 synthetic benchmarks

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GeForce GTX 970
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Wins
GeForce RTX 5050
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

NVIDIA • 4GB GDDR5

0
Wins
0%
Win Rate
3574
3DMark
28989
Geekbench
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

NVIDIA • 8GB GDDR6

4
Wins
100%
Win Rate
10522
3DMark
92181
Geekbench

Where to Buy

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GeForce RTX 5050
$249.99 Buy Now
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GeForce RTX 5050
$209.99 Buy Now

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