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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060

For running models locally, priced in Canada. At 8k context the first runs 26 models fully in memory, the second 26.

In short

Both have 8 GB of memory for models; the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 has 320 GB/s of bandwidth and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 448 GB/s. At 8k context both run the same 26 models we track fully in memory. On the models both run fully in memory, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 is about 1.4× as fast as the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 (estimated, median across models). In Canada the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 costs $570 at Amazon and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 $660 at Amazon: the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 is $90 cheaper.

Updated . Speeds are estimates; how they are worked out.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

$570

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060

$660

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Specifications

SpecNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060
GPUGeForce RTX 5050GeForce RTX 5060
Memory8 GB GDDR68 GB GDDR7
Memory bus128-bit128-bit
Memory bandwidth320 GB/s448 GB/s
FP16 compute13.169 TFLOPS19.177 TFLOPS
SoftwareCUDACUDA
Board power130 W145 W
PCIe generationGen 5Gen 5
PCIe lanesx8x8

What each runs

Estimated decode speed with the most precise quant that fits each one est.

ModelNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060
Qwen 3.5 9B29tok/sQ5_K_M40tok/sQ5_K_M
DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B28tok/sQ5_K_M39tok/sQ5_K_M
Qwen3 8B28tok/sQ5_K_M39tok/sQ5_K_M
Qwen 3.5 4B41tok/sQ8_058tok/sQ8_0
Ministral 3 8B31tok/sQ4_K_M44tok/sQ4_K_M
Granite 4.2 8B29tok/sQ4_K_M40tok/sQ4_K_M
Gemma 4 E4B35tok/sQ5_K_M48tok/sQ5_K_M
LFM2.5 8B-A1B103tok/sUD-Q5_K_M144tok/sUD-Q5_K_M
Llama 3.1 8B29tok/sQ5_K_M41tok/sQ5_K_M
Qwen2.5 0.5B314tok/sQ8_0440tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3.5 0.8B213tok/sQ8_0298tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3.5 2B128tok/sQ5_K_M179tok/sQ5_K_M
LFM3 1.7B101tok/sQ8_0142tok/sQ8_0
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B93tok/sQ8_0130tok/sQ8_0
MiniCPM5 2B65tok/sQ8_092tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 2.6B59tok/sQ8_082tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 VL 3B59tok/sQ8_082tok/sQ8_0
Spark X2.5 4B58tok/smlx-4bit82tok/smlx-4bit
granite vision 4.1 4b46tok/sQ8_065tok/sQ8_0
Ministral 3 3B Instruct 251244tok/sQ8_061tok/sQ8_0
granite 4.2 3b44tok/sQ8_061tok/sQ8_0
FrogNano 4B 260940tok/sQ8_056tok/sQ8_0
Ministral 3 8B Reasoning 251231tok/sQ4_K_M44tok/sQ4_K_M
GLM 4.6V Flash31tok/sQ4_K_M43tok/sQ4_K_M
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B30tok/sQ6_K41tok/sQ6_K
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B29tok/sQ5_K_M41tok/sQ5_K_M
Qwen 3.8 27Boffloadoffload
Qwen 3.6 27Boffloadoffload
Gemma 4 31Boffloadoffload
Qwen 3.6 35B-A3Boffloadoffload
Qwen 3.5 27Boffloadoffload
Gemma 4 26B-A4Boffloadoffload
Qwen 3.5 35B-A3Boffloadoffload
GLM 4.7 Flashoffloadoffload
Devstral Small 2 24Boffloadoffload
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3Boffloadoffload
gpt-oss 20Boffloadoffload
Kimi Linear 48B-A3Boffloadoffload
Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3Boffloadoffload
Qwen3 32Boffloadoffload
Gemma 4 12Boffloadoffload
Mistral Small 3.2 24Boffloadoffload
Gemma 3 27Boffloadoffload
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32Boffloadoffload
Ministral 3 14Boffloadoffload
Qwen3 14Boffloadoffload
Phi-4 14Boffloadoffload
Mellum2.1 12B A2.5B Thinkingoffloadoffload
Kimi VL A3B Thinking 2506offloadoffload
LFM2.5 24B A2Boffloadoffload
GLM 4 9B 0414offloadoffload
Kimi VL A3Boffloadoffload
Ministral 3 14B Reasoning 2512offloadoffload
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14Boffloadoffload
GLM 4.1V 9B Thinkingoffloadoffload
Devstral Small 2507offloadoffload
Magistral Small 2506offloadoffload
Magistral Small 2507offloadoffload
Magistral Small 2509offloadoffload
Muse Glimmer 30Boffloadoffload
granite 4.2 30boffloadoffload
Qwen3.8 27B OBLITERATEDoffloadoffload
DeepSeek V4 Flashwon't runwon't run
GLM 5.3 Flashwon't runwon't run
Qwen 3.8 Flash Nextwon't runwon't run
MiniMax M2.7won't runwon't run
Qwen 3.5 122B-A10Bwon't runwon't run
Nemotron 3 Super 120B-A12Bwon't runwon't run
Qwen3 Coder Nextwon't runwon't run
gpt-oss 120Bwon't runwon't run
Mistral Small 4 119Bwon't runwon't run
GLM 4.5 Airwon't runwon't run
Qwen3 Next 80B-A3Bwon't runwon't run
Llama 3.3 70Bwon't runwon't run
DeepSeek R1won't runwon't run
DeepSeek R1 0528won't runwon't run
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70Bwon't runwon't run
DeepSeek R1 Zerowon't runwon't run
DeepSeek V3won't runwon't run
DeepSeek V3 0324won't runwon't run
DeepSeek V3.1won't runwon't run
DeepSeek V3.1 Terminuswon't runwon't run
DeepSeek V3.2won't runwon't run
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731won't runwon't run
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Expwon't runwon't run
Devstral 2 123B Instruct 2512won't runwon't run
GLM 4.5won't runwon't run
GLM 4.5Vwon't runwon't run
GLM 4.6won't runwon't run
GLM 4.6Vwon't runwon't run
GLM 4.7won't runwon't run
GLM 5won't runwon't run
GLM 5.1won't runwon't run
GLM 5.2won't runwon't run
GLM 5.3won't runwon't run
Kimi Dev 72Bwon't runwon't run
Kimi K2won't runwon't run
Kimi K2 Instruct 0905won't runwon't run
Kimi K2 Thinkingwon't runwon't run
Kimi K2.5won't runwon't run
MiniMax M2won't runwon't run
MiniMax M2.1won't runwon't run
MiniMax M2.5won't runwon't run
MiniMax M3won't runwon't run
Mistral Medium 3.5 128Bwon't runwon't run

Questions

Which is better for local AI, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 or the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060?
Choose the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 for speed. Choose the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 to spend less.
Which can run bigger models, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 or the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060?
At 8k context both run the same 26 models we track fully in memory.
Which is faster for local AI, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 or the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060?
On the models both run fully in memory, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 is about 1.4× as fast as the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 (estimated, median across models).
What is the price difference between the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060?
In Canada the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 costs $570 at Amazon and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 $660 at Amazon: the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 is $90 cheaper.

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