NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 vs AMD Radeon RX 6550M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 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

3468 points
26% slightly better overall score
2735 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

82 FPS
21 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
61 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

41 FPS
42 FPS
1 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

59 FPS
6 FPS slightly higher City frame rate
53 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

31 FPS
8 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
24 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1484.67 points
289% significantly higher Blender score
380.88 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

63483 points
40% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
45145 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

62406 points
15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
53865 points

Specifications

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB
100% significantly more memory
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

224 GB/s
55% significantly higher memory bandwidth
144 GB/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

142.2 Gigatexels/s
182.1 Gigatexels/s
28% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

9.10 TFLOPS
56% significantly better floating point performance
5.8 TFLOPS

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

139th 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

2022 January
2023 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
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OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
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GeForce RTX 3050 vs Radeon RX 6550M specs and performance

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

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce RTX 3050 has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

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

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