Nvidia skipped the RTX 4050 in its GeForce RTX 40 lineup, leaving only the aging RTX 3060 and 3050 as budget options. The new GeForce RTX 5050 replaces both and adds modern features and standards. It’s the weakest—but also the cheapest—Blackwell-architecture card and can run every game at lower resolutions without without major sacrifices in image quality. That said, its price still makes the RTX 5060 the more attractive choice.
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On GeForce cards, you can also enable the generally superior DLSS, which reconstructs images using AI from lower-sample frames through super resolution. For RT Ultra, we use DLAA and the Balanced mode; for RT Overdrive with path tracing, both DLAA and DLSS in Performance mode are used. GeForce RTX 40 cards support generation of an intermediate frame, and the RTX 50 series is also tested in Multi Frame Generation x4 mode, which inserts three generated frames between two rendered ones, increasing frame rates several-fold.
Global settings RT Ultra
Performance with DLAA, DLSS Performance and DLSS Frame Gen
1920 × 1080
2560 × 1440
3840 × 2160
Global settings RT Overdrive
Performance with DLAA, DLSS Performance and DLSS Frame Gen
1920 × 1080
2560 × 1440
3840 × 2160
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