AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

Compare AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT 20 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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$ 679.99

$ 249.99

$ 430.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

19230 points

247% significantly better overall score

5535 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

394 FPS

259 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

135 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

273 FPS

208 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

66 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

362 FPS

268 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

94 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

159 FPS

107 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

52 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

5616 points

142% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2317 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

3540.90 points

22% slightly higher Blender score

2880.41 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

187759 points

93% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

97092 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

213258 points

132% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

91845 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1800 MHz

2317 MHz

28% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2400 MHz

2572 MHz

7% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

384 Bit

200% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

800 GB/s

150% significantly higher memory bandwidth

320 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

315 W

130 W

142% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

460 Gigapixels/s

458% significantly higher pixel rate

82.3 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

810 Gigatexels/s

293% significantly higher texture rate

205.8 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

12288

380% significantly more shading units

2560

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

768

859% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

192

499% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

10th of 594

91st of 594

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 7000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 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 7900 XT vs GeForce RTX 5050 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 7900 XT GPU is faster than the GeForce RTX 5050 in gaming.

The GeForce RTX 5050 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 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 7900 XT at 315 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon RX 7900 XT is faster than the GeForce RTX 5050.