AMD Radeon R9 390X vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop

Compare AMD Radeon R9 390X 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon R9 390X

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1474 points

4339 points

194% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

41 FPS

92 FPS

51 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

28 FPS

64 FPS

35 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

39 FPS

90 FPS

51 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

16 FPS

50 FPS

34 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1050 MHz

2% slightly higher core clock speed

1020 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1050 MHz

1500 MHz

42% much higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

512 Bit

300% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

384 GB/s

Identical

384 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

275 W

50 W

450% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

67.2 Gigapixels/s

40% slightly higher pixel rate

48 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

184.8 Gigatexels/s

53% significantly higher texture rate

120 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2816

10% slightly more shading units

2560

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

176

120% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

239th of 597

115th of 597

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 300 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 June

2025 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR7

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

Radeon R9 390X vs GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop GPU is faster than the Radeon R9 390X in gaming.

The Radeon R9 390X has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. Despite this, the GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop has a much higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 50 W when compared to the Radeon R9 390X at 275 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop over the Radeon R9 390X.