AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050

Compare AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050

Price

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$ 349.00

$ 229.99

$ 119.01 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2605 points

3468 points

33% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

56 FPS

82 FPS

27 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

40 FPS

41 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

48 FPS

59 FPS

11 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

22 FPS

31 FPS

9 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4904 points

6224 points

26% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

503.48 points

1484.67 points

194% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

48577 points

71667 points

47% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

33781 points

56109 points

66% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

46502 points

63483 points

36% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53890 points

62406 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1607 MHz

3% slightly higher core clock speed

1552 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1845 MHz

3% slightly higher boost clock speed

1777 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

Identical

8 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

Identical

224 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

130 W

Identical

130 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

59 Gigapixels/s

3% slightly higher pixel rate

56.86 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

162.36 Gigatexels/s

14% slightly higher texture rate

142.2 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.2 TFLOPS

9.10 TFLOPS

74% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1408

2560

81% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

10% 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

171st of 586

139th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 December

2022 January

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 XT vs GeForce RTX 3050 comparison

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3050 graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 5500 XT in our tests.

The Radeon RX 5500 XT 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 XT also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that they both have the same amount of memory at 8 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, both the Radeon RX 5500 XT and the GeForce RTX 3050 have an identical TDP. 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 3050 over the Radeon RX 5500 XT.