AMD Radeon RX 5500 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop

Compare AMD Radeon RX 5500 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 5500

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2707 points

3% slightly better overall score

2615 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

60 FPS

64 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

41 FPS

9 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

32 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

51 FPS

6 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

45 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

23 FPS

25 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

339.58 points

1161.74 points

242% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

40204 points

55123 points

37% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

34601 points

47251 points

36% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

44390 points

51045 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

54355 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

53105 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1670 MHz

34% slightly higher core clock speed

1238 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1845 MHz

23% slightly higher boost clock speed

1500 MHz

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

Identical

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224 GB/s

16% slightly higher memory bandwidth

192 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W

75 W

100% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

59 Gigapixels/s

74% significantly higher pixel rate

33.82 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

162.36 Gigatexels/s

139% significantly higher texture rate

67.65 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.2 TFLOPS

20% slightly better floating point performance

4.33 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1408

2048

45% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

37% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

166th of 586

170th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July

2021 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

Radeon RX 5500 vs GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 5500 beats the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 5500 has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the Radeon RX 5500 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

As stated by the manufacturer, they both have the same amount of memory at 4 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 5500 over the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop.