AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 A Laptop

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

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AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 A Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2605 points

3152 points

20% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

56 FPS

75 FPS

19 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

40 FPS

4 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

36 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

48 FPS

54 FPS

6 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

22 FPS

29 FPS

7 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

503.48 points

1508.43 points

199% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

46502 points

54544 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53890 points

57342 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1607 MHz

50% significantly higher core clock speed

1065 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1845 MHz

37% slightly higher boost clock speed

1343 MHz

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

130 W

45 W

188% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

59 Gigapixels/s

37% slightly higher pixel rate

42.98 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

162.36 Gigatexels/s

115% significantly higher texture rate

75.21 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1408

1792

27% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

57% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

172nd of 586

151st of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 December

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 A Laptop specs and performance

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

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 5500 XT has a significantly 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. In addition, the Radeon RX 5500 XT also has a slightly 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 3050 A Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 45 W when compared to the Radeon RX 5500 XT at 130 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 3050 A Laptop is faster than the Radeon RX 5500 XT.