AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

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AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 5500 XT and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 5% (1845MHz vs 1755MHz)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

896 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 5500 XT

5.196 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM +55%

8.087 TFLOPS

Blender

Radeon RX 5500 XT +4%

1629

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

1566

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 5500 XT +15%

23

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

20

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 5500 XT

43

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM +16%

50

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 5500 XT +1%

71

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

70

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX 5500 XT +13%

33

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

29

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX 5500 XT

64

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM +1%

65

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX 5500 XT +7%

88

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

82

Radeon RX 5500 XT

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GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

Graphics Card

Dec 2019

Release Date

Jan 2022

Navi

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1607 MHz

Base Clock

1515 MHz

1845 MHz

Boost Clock

1755 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

18

22

Compute Units

-

1408

Shading Units

2304

88

TMUs

72

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

72

-

RT Cores

18

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

59.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

56.16 GPixel/s

162.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

126.4 GTexel/s

10.39 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

8.087 TFLOPS

5.196 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.087 TFLOPS

324.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

126.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 14

GPU Name

GA106

Navi 14 XTX (215-0932396)

GPU Variant

GA106-150-KA-A1

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

7 nm

Process Size

8 nm

6.4 billion

Transistors

12 billion

158 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Board Design

130W

TDP

130W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

6.5

Shader Model

6.6

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