Component comparison
GeForce RTX 5050 vs GeForce 940M
GeForce RTX 5050 vs GeForce 940M — detailed GPU comparison: performance, gaming FPS, specifications.
Advantages
A
GeForce RTX 5050
- + Release year (+10)
- + VRAM (GB) (+6 GB)
- + Bandwidth (GB/s) (+306 GB/s)
- + Memory bus (bit) (+64 bit)
- + TGP / TDP (W) (+40 W)
- + Lithography (nm) (-25 nm)
- + Transistors (M) (+15,030M)
- + CUDA cores (+2176)
- + TMUs (+56)
- + ROPs (+24)
- + FP32 performance (TFLOPS) (+12.27 TFLOPS)
- + Pixel fill rate (GPixel/s) (+64.73 GPixel/s)
- + Texture fill rate (GTexel/s) (+170.66 GTexel/s)
- + Energy efficiency (+17.9)
- + PassMark (overall) (+12934)
- + Normalized score (+35.1)
B
GeForce 940M
- + Die size (mm²) (+1 mm²)
Detailed spec comparison
| Spec |
Component A
GeForce RTX 5050
|
Component B
GeForce 940M
|
|---|---|---|
| Release year | 2025 (+10) | 2015 |
| VRAM (GB) | 8 GB (+6 GB) | 2 GB |
| Memory type | GDDR6 | DDR3 |
| Memory clock (MHz) | — | 900 MHz |
| Bandwidth (GB/s) | 320 GB/s (+306 GB/s) | 14 GB/s |
| Memory bus (bit) | 128 bit (+64 bit) | 64 bit |
| TGP / TDP (W) | 115 W (+40 W) | 75 W |
| Lithography (nm) | 3 nm (-25 nm) | 28 nm |
| Transistors (M) | 16,900M (+15,030M) | 1,870M |
| Die size (mm²) | 149 mm² | 148 mm² (+1 mm²) |
| Base clock (MHz) | — | 1020 MHz |
| Boost clock (MHz) | — | 1098 MHz |
| CUDA cores | 2,560 (+2176) | 384 |
| TMUs | 80 (+56) | 24 |
| ROPs | 32 (+24) | 8 |
| RT cores | 20 | — |
| Tensor cores | 80 | — |
| FP32 performance (TFLOPS) | 13.17 TFLOPS (+12.27 TFLOPS) | 0.90 TFLOPS |
| Pixel fill rate (GPixel/s) | 82.30 GPixel/s (+64.73 GPixel/s) | 17.57 GPixel/s |
| Texture fill rate (GTexel/s) | 205.80 GTexel/s (+170.66 GTexel/s) | 35.14 GTexel/s |
| Energy efficiency | 24.3 (+17.9) | 6.4 |
| PassMark (overall) | 14,067 (+12934) | 1,133 |
| 3DMark Time Spy | — | — |
| 3DMark Fire Strike | — | 1,622 |
| Geekbench OpenCL | — | 6,025 |
| Geekbench Vulkan | — | 4,549 |
| Normalized score | 41.3 (+35.1) | 6.2 |
Only in component A
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In both
CUDA
FPS in games (1080p)
| Game | GeForce RTX 5050 | GeForce 940M | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| CS:GO | 240 FPS | 240 FPS | ≈ |
| GTA V | 140 FPS | 140 FPS | ≈ |
| Overwatch | 240 FPS | 240 FPS | ≈ |
| PUBG | 140 FPS | 140 FPS | ≈ |
Specs from public sources (PassMark, Geekbench). FPS measured at 1080p medium settings.
Based on the comparison:
GeForce RTX 5050 wins 16 of the comparable criteria.
The choice depends on your use case.
🤔 How to choose
Universal advice for any use case.
- Reliability vs price: reliability (median 50) ↔ price (median 385.1).
- Weight vs CPU: mobility (median 48) ↔ overall performance (median 49.8).
- Upgradeability vs battery: upgradability (median 50) ↔ battery life (median 2.8).