The Nvidia RTX 5050 is undoubtedly one of the company’s strangest products in rece years. Not only is it priced at $ 5, the range that Nvidia has not been approached for years, but it was suddenly released at the beginning of July without any review of the day. Now that we have seen the RTX 5050 in practice, the reason for this strange supply is that the RTX 5050 is not performing well. Although Nvidia is a positive move (compared to other new generation models), the RTX 5050 is not a good choice for most PC gamers. Currely, the competition at the low price range is very severe and the RTX 5050 is not competing.
Iel Arc B580
If Nvidia has targeted a particular card, it would definitely be the Iel Arc B580. But the bad news for Nvidia is that the ARC B580 is a better option. At 1080p resolution, this card defeats the RTX 5050 in most games, about 2 % or less. However, in higher resolutions or games that require more VRAM, the ARC B580’s superiority is revealed. This card has 2GB of memory, while the RTX 5050 only has 2 GB; And this is an importa advaage for playing the game in resolutions like the 1440p.
Both cards have an almost ideical performance for 1080p, but the ARC B580 has a better scalability. In the new era of PC games where techniques such as upscaling and frame generation are common, the 2GB of ARC B580 supports these features well. Even with the Multi-Frame Generation (MFG) technology on the RTX 5050, the 2GB VRAM limit preves full use of these capabilities. Because at high resolution, MFG occupies a lot of VRAM. In the past there may be a close competition between the two cards, with the low advaage of Nvidia thanks to the DLSS 4.
NVIDIA RTX 4060
The RTX 4060 was not a brillia card at the launch, but it became one of the most popular cards among PC gamers and about 2 % of Steam users use it. The RTX 5050 was expected to be at least the RTX 4060, but not. In fact, the RTX 4060 is slightly ahead of the RTX 5050 in most games. In this competition, the price difference is the price and the RTX 4060 is about $ 2 more expensive than the RTX 5050. If you are looking to buy a new graphics card, the RTX 5050 is better in price despite the weaker performance. But if you have no problem buying a second -hand card, the RTX 4060 is available in the market for between $ 1 and $ 2 and is worth more than the RTX 5050. Of course, the MFG is available on the RTX 5050 and is not on the RTX 4060, but on cards with 2 GB of memory, the MFG can hardly be used. However, the RTX 4060 also supports the DLSS 4 and the Transformer and single -frame production model.
AMD RX 9060 xt
The AMD RX 9060 XT card is slightly more expensive than the RTX 5050, which means the 2GB model is $ 2 and 2GB more expensive. But this increase in prices is associated with a significa increase in performance, and depending on the memory capacity, it offers about 2 to 5 perce better performance. Even the 4GB model, although only 5 % more expensive, has about 2 % better performance in most games.
Not everything is limited to raw performance. The RTX 5050 is equipped with MFG, which is still an attractive feature of the 2GB VRAM. In the RX 9060 XT you can use a single -frame production with FSR 3.1 or AMD Fluid Motion Frames 2, but for MFG you should go for tools like Lossless Scaling. Finally, the main advaage of the RX 9060 XT is its raw performance. Like the RTX 5050, the card has a problem with VRAM at high resolution, but it performs much better in 1080p, which is less memory consumption.
NVIDIA RTX 5060
If the RTX 5060 had not existed, the RTX 5050 might not be so disappoiing. But the RTX 5060, which is just $ 5, is much more expensive. Although it does not reach the RX 9060 XT in terms of speed, it still operates up to 5 % faster than the RTX 5050, which is high for such a price difference. If you are not looking for a 4GB model, the RTX 5060 is a good replaceme.
The main advaage of the RTX 5060 over the RX 9060 XT is the presence of MFG and the great DLSS 4. Although there is a 2GB limit here, but in games that do not consume much memory, it is possible to activate MFG at a rate of 5x. The RTX 5060 may not be suitable for higher resolutions, but it is an acceptable choice for a good experience at 1080p.
Nvidia RTX 5050; Economic card, but with low purchase value
In rece years, both Nvidia and AMD have fluctuated in the $ 2 range. Given that the most popular cards in each generation are usually within the same range, the competition is very difficult to compete and the RTX 5050 is not worth the purchase. With $ 5 more cost, cards can be provided far more powerful cards. Even in the same price range, options like the ARC B580 will work better for higher resolutions and games that will be released in the future.
