NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop vs AMD Radeon RX 6550M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop 4 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6550M 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2615 points
2735 points
4% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

64 FPS
2 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate
61 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

32 FPS
42 FPS
10 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

45 FPS
53 FPS
8 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

25 FPS
1 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate
24 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1161.74 points
205% significantly higher Blender score
380.88 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

51045 points
13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
45145 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53105 points
53865 points
1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB
Identical
4 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit
100% significantly larger memory bus width
64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

192 GB/s
33% slightly higher memory bandwidth
144 GB/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

67.65 Gigatexels/s
182.1 Gigatexels/s
169% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.33 TFLOPS
5.8 TFLOPS
33% slightly better floating point performance

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

32
64
100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

170th of 586
165th of 586

Family

The product line

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Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 May
2023 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
-

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
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GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop vs Radeon RX 6550M benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 6550M GPU is faster than the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop in gaming.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, they both have the same amount of memory at 4 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 6550M is better than the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop.

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