AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop

Compare AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT 8 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 XT

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2624 points

Identical

2624 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

56 FPS

64 FPS

8 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

40 FPS

8 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

32 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

48 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

45 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

22 FPS

25 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

503.48 points

1161.74 points

130% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

48577 points

55123 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

33781 points

47251 points

39% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

46502 points

51045 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53890 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

53105 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1607 MHz

29% 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

8 GiB

100% significantly more memory

4 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

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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

75 W

73% 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

173rd of 597

172nd of 597

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 December

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 XT vs GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop comparison

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

In our comparison, 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 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Radeon RX 5500 XT has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the Radeon RX 5500 XT at 130 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop is better than the Radeon RX 5500 XT.