SAPPHIRE PULSE Radeon RX 7600
vs
MSI GeForce RTX 5050 GAMING OC


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The SAPPHIRE PULSE Radeon RX 7600 has 2048 shader units and these clock a maximum of 2.76 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 22.57 TFLOPS.

The MSI GeForce RTX 5050 GAMING OC has 2560 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 2.65 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 13.55 TFLOPS.

GPU

The SAPPHIRE PULSE Radeon RX 7600 is equipped with a graphics chip of the RDNA 3 architecture, which has 32 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card MSI GeForce RTX 5050 GAMING OC is based on the Blackwell 2.0 architecture and is equipped with 20 execution units.
SAPPHIRE PULSE Radeon RX 7600 GPU MSI GeForce RTX 5050 GAMING OC
AMD Radeon RX 7600 Based on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050
Navi 33 XL GPU Chip GB207-300-A1
RDNA 3 Architecture Blackwell 2.0
32 Streaming Multiprocessors 20
2048 Shader 2560
64 Render Output Units 32
128 Texture Units 80
32 Raytracing Cores 20

Memory

The SAPPHIRE PULSE Radeon RX 7600 is equipped with a 8 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory, which is equipped with 2.250 GHz clocks.

The MSI GeForce RTX 5050 GAMING OC has a 8 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory and the memory clock is 2.500GHz.

8 GB Memory Size 8 GB
GDDR6 Memory Type GDDR6
2.250 GHz Memory Clock 2.500 GHz
18.0 Gbps Memory Speed 20.0 Gbps
288 GB/s Memory bandwidth 320 GB/s
128 bit Memory Interface 128 bit

Clock Speeds

The SAPPHIRE PULSE Radeon RX 7600 has a turbo clock of 2.755 GHz. The turbo frequency of the MSI GeForce RTX 5050 GAMING OC is 2.647 GHz.

1.770 GHz Base Clock 2.280 GHz
2.755 GHz Boost Clock 2.647 GHz
2.36 GHz Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The SAPPHIRE PULSE Radeon RX 7600 has 1 x 8-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as Unknown.

The MSI GeForce RTX 5050 GAMING OC is equipped with a 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 85 °C.

185 W TDP 130 W
-- TDP (up) --
Unknown Tjunction max 85 °C
1 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the SAPPHIRE PULSE Radeon RX 7600 are cooled with a Air cooling.

The MSI GeForce RTX 5050 GAMING OC is cooled by a Air cooling.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
2 x 90 mm Fan 1 2 x 88 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

The SAPPHIRE PULSE Radeon RX 7600 supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.3.

The MSI GeForce RTX 5050 GAMING OC supports HDCP in version 2.3 and all previous versions.

4 Max. Displays 4
2.3 HDCP-Version 2.3
1x HDMI v2.1a HDMI Ports 1x HDMI v2.1b
3x DP v1.4 DP Ports 3x DP v2.1b
-- DVI Ports --
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The SAPPHIRE PULSE Radeon RX 7600 supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_2 (Ultimate).

The MSI GeForce RTX 5050 GAMING OC supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_2 (Ultimate).

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_2 (Ultimate) DirectX 12_2 (Ultimate)
Yes Raytracing Yes
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
No LED lighting LED MSI Mystic Light

Supported Video Codecs

This area lists which video codecs can be decoded or encoded by the graphics cards in hardware. As a result, the power consumption can be reduced due to a lower processor load.

Decode / Encode h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode h265 / HEVC Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode AV1 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode VP8 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode VP9 Decode / Encode

Dimensions

The SAPPHIRE PULSE Radeon RX 7600 is 44 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the MSI GeForce RTX 5050 GAMING OC is 44 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

240 mm Length 202 mm
107 mm Height 120 mm
44 mm Width 41 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight 497 g
PCIe 4 x 8 GPU Interface PCIe 5 x 8
No SFF-Ready No

Additional data

Manufactured using the 6 nanometer process, SAPPHIRE PULSE Radeon RX 7600 was released in Q2/2023.

The MSI GeForce RTX 5050 GAMING OC published in Q3/2025 is manufactured with a structure width of 5 nanometers.

11324-01-20G Part-no G5050-8GC
Q2/2023 Release date Q3/2025
269 $ (Reference) Launch Price 249 $ (Reference)
6 nm Structure size 5 nm
data sheet Documents data sheet

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Benchmark results

3DMark Benchmark (DirectX, Raytracing)

3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.

Time Spy Extreme Graphics score

Port Royal (Raytracing)

Speed Way Graphics Score (Raytracing)

Cyberpunk 2077

Cyberpunk 2077 was developed by CD Projekt Red and is based on the development studio's own REDengine 4. Ray tracing is switched off in our benchmarks.

3840x2160 (2160p)

SAPPHIRE PULSE Radeon RX 7600 SAPPHIRE PULSE Radeon RX 7600
8 GB GDDR6
21 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p)

SAPPHIRE PULSE Radeon RX 7600 SAPPHIRE PULSE Radeon RX 7600
8 GB GDDR6
50 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

SAPPHIRE PULSE Radeon RX 7600 SAPPHIRE PULSE Radeon RX 7600
8 GB GDDR6
75 fps (avg)

The Last of Us Part 1

The Last of Us Part One is a game released by Sony in June 2013 exclusively for the Playstation and released for the PC in early 2023. The benchmark values here were determined at high details.

2560x1440 (1440p)

SAPPHIRE PULSE Radeon RX 7600 SAPPHIRE PULSE Radeon RX 7600
8 GB GDDR6
37 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

SAPPHIRE PULSE Radeon RX 7600 SAPPHIRE PULSE Radeon RX 7600
8 GB GDDR6
79 fps (avg)

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal)

Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.

Geekbench 6 - OpenCL

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan

FP32 Performance (Single-precision TFLOPS)

The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.

FP32 (TFLOPS)

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