AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

Compare AMD Radeon RX 5700 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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$ 488.33

$ 249.99

$ 238.34 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5396 points

5591 points

3% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

111 FPS

135 FPS

24 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

81 FPS

15 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

66 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

97 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

95 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

47 FPS

52 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

9586 points

313% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2317 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

979.30 points

2880.41 points

194% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

78331 points

97092 points

23% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

87728 points

91845 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1605 MHz

2317 MHz

44% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1905 MHz

2572 MHz

35% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

448 GB/s

40% slightly higher memory bandwidth

320 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

225 W

130 W

73% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

121.9 Gigapixels/s

48% significantly higher pixel rate

82.3 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

304.8 Gigatexels/s

48% significantly higher texture rate

205.8 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

Identical

2560

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160

100% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

93rd of 597

91st of 597

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July

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 5700 XT vs GeForce RTX 5050 comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 5050 beats the Radeon RX 5700 XT in gaming performance.

In our comparison, 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, the GeForce RTX 5050 has a significantly lower TDP at 130 W when compared to the Radeon RX 5700 XT at 225 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 5050 is faster than the Radeon RX 5700 XT.