AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT 12 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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$ 424.97

$ 249.99

$ 174.98 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

7232 points

29% slightly better overall score

5591 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

148 FPS

13 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

135 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

107 FPS

41 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

66 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

131 FPS

36 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

95 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

62 FPS

10 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

52 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

12827 points

453% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2317 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1515.19 points

2880.41 points

90% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

100963 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

97092 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

114437 points

24% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

91845 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

2321 MHz

0.17% slightly higher core clock speed

2317 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2581 MHz

0.35% slightly higher boost clock speed

2572 MHz

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

384 GB/s

20% slightly higher memory bandwidth

320 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

230 W

130 W

76% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

165.2 Gigapixels/s

100% significantly higher pixel rate

82.3 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

413 Gigatexels/s

100% 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

64th of 597

91st of 597

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 March

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 6700 XT vs GeForce RTX 5050 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 6700 XT beats the GeForce RTX 5050 in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 6700 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 6700 XT also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 5050 has a significantly lower TDP at 130 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6700 XT at 230 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 6700 XT is better than the GeForce RTX 5050.