AMD Radeon VII vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

Compare AMD Radeon VII 16 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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$ 945.00

$ 249.99

$ 695.01 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

6138 points

9% slightly better overall score

5591 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

107 FPS

135 FPS

28 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

100 FPS

34 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

66 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

106 FPS

11 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

95 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

56 FPS

4 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

52 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

9129 points

294% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2317 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

817.47 points

2880.41 points

252% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

92086 points

97092 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

91729 points

91845 points

0.13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1400 MHz

2317 MHz

65% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1750 MHz

2572 MHz

46% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

4096 Bit

3100% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

1024 GB/s

220% significantly higher memory bandwidth

320 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

300 W

130 W

130% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

115.26 Gigapixels/s

40% slightly higher pixel rate

82.3 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

432.24 Gigatexels/s

110% significantly higher texture rate

205.8 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3840

49% significantly more shading units

2560

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

240

200% 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

80th of 597

91st of 597

Family

The product line

Radeon RX Vega Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 February

2025 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

HBM2

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

Radeon VII vs GeForce RTX 5050 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Radeon VII beats the GeForce RTX 5050 in gaming performance.

The GeForce RTX 5050 has a significantly 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 significantly 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 VII at 300 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 Radeon VII is faster than the GeForce RTX 5050.