AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

Compare AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

Price

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$ 349.00

$ 249.99

$ 99.01 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2624 points

5591 points

113% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

56 FPS

135 FPS

79 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

40 FPS

66 FPS

26 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

48 FPS

95 FPS

47 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

22 FPS

52 FPS

30 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4904 points

111% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2317 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

503.48 points

2880.41 points

472% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

46502 points

97092 points

108% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53890 points

91845 points

70% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1607 MHz

2317 MHz

44% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1845 MHz

2572 MHz

39% slightly higher boost clock speed

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

320 GB/s

42% much higher memory bandwidth

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

82.3 Gigapixels/s

39% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

162.36 Gigatexels/s

205.8 Gigatexels/s

26% slightly higher texture rate

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

173rd of 597

91st of 597

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 December

2025 July

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 5050 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 5050 beats the Radeon RX 5500 XT in gaming performance.

The GeForce RTX 5050 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 GeForce RTX 5050 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, both the Radeon RX 5500 XT and the GeForce RTX 5050 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 5050 over the Radeon RX 5500 XT.