AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050

Compare AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT 6 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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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 395.99
$ 229.99
$ 166.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4311 points
24% slightly better overall score
3468 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

89 FPS
6 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate
82 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

64 FPS
23 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
41 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

78 FPS
19 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
59 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

37 FPS
5 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate
31 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

7692 points
23% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score
6224 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

619.96 points
1484.67 points
139% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

57968 points
71667 points
23% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

48131 points
56109 points
16% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

65528 points
3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
63483 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

77765 points
24% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
62406 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1130 MHz
1552 MHz
37% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1560 MHz
1777 MHz
13% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB
8 GiB
33% slightly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit
49% significantly larger memory bus width
128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

336 GB/s
49% significantly higher memory bandwidth
224 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W
130 W
15% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

99.8 Gigapixels/s
75% significantly higher pixel rate
56.86 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

224.64 Gigatexels/s
57% significantly higher texture rate
142.2 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

7.19 TFLOPS
9.10 TFLOPS
26% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304
2560
11% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144
79% significantly more texture mapping units
80

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

64
100% significantly more render output processors
32

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

116th of 586
139th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 January
2022 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

Radeon RX 5600 XT vs GeForce RTX 3050 benchmarks

For gaming, the Radeon RX 5600 XT graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 3050 in our tests.

The GeForce RTX 3050 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 GeForce RTX 3050 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 the GeForce RTX 3050 has slightly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 6 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 has a slightly lower TDP at 130 W when compared to the Radeon RX 5600 XT at 150 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon RX 5600 XT is faster than the GeForce RTX 3050.

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