AMD Radeon 860M vs Nvidia GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop

Compared 2 processors: AMD Radeon 860M, vs Nvidia GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop. Below are specs, tests, pros and cons for each device

Review

Key Specs AMD Radeon 860M and Nvidia GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop
Games
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, Vulkan
AI/ML
AI workload testing
Professional Apps
3D modeling, video editing, rendering
Energy Efficiency
Power usage in various scenarios
NanoReview Score
Overall score by NanoReview

Tests & specs

Specs & test comparison

Benchmarks

CPU performance comparison across tasks
3DMark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
AMD Radeon 860M
2572
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop
n/a
GeekBench v6
GB6 Compute Score
AMD Radeon 860M
25630
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop
n/a
Background Blur57.2 frames/sn/a
Face Detection30.5 frames/sn/a
Horizon Detection0.83 Gpix/secn/a
Edge Detection1.16 Gpix/secn/a
Gaussian Blur0.93 Gpix/secn/a
Feature Matching0.35 Gpix/secn/a
Stereo Matching97.8 Gpix/secn/a
Particle Physics3933.5 fpsn/a
APIOpenCLn/a

Blender

Real-world 3D modeling test
Blender GPU
AMD Radeon 860M
n/a
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop
2993.16

Tech Specs

Specs & test comparison

General Info

Manufacturer AMD Nvidia
Build Integrated Discrete
Announced January, 7, 2025 June, 24, 2025
Form Factor Laptop use Laptop use
Use case Universal Gaming
Segment Mid-range Mid-range
Architecture RDNA 3.5 Blackwell 2.0
Codename Krackan Point GB207

GPU

GPU Frequency n/a 2235-2520 MHz
Boost GPU Frequency 3000 MHz 1500-2662 MHz
Shader Units 512 2560
TMUs 32 80
ROPs 16 32
Execution Units 8 20
Ray Tracing Cores 8 20
Tensor Cores n/a 80
L1 cache n/a 128 KB/core
L2 cache n/a 32000 KB/core
Instructions per Clock 4 IPC 2 IPC

Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 48 Gpix/sec 48-85 Gpix/sec
Texture Fill Rate 96 GTex/s 120-213 GTex/s
FLOPS 6.1 TFLOPS 7.7-13.6 TFLOPS

Process

Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 IGP
TGP 15-54 W 35-100 W
Process TSMC TSMC
Process tech. 4 nm 5 nm
Max temperature 100 °C n/a

Memory

Interface System Shared GDDR7
Memory Frequency n/a 1750 MHz
Bus n/a 128 bit
ECC support n/a No
Effective Memory Speed n/a 24000 MB/s
Memory Size n/a 8 GB
Max Throughput
AMD Radeon 860M
n/a
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop
384 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 12.2
Vulkan 1.4 1.4
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
CUDA n/a 12.0
DisplayPort 2.1 2.1b
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS No DLSS 4

Results

After analyzing the data, we consider Nvidia GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop the clear winner in this comparison.

Survey

Which GPU would you pick?
0 (0%)
0 (0%)
Total Votes: 0

User comments

Share your opinion or ask questions below