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GeForce RTX 3050 vs Radeon RX 5500 XT

Intro

The GeForce RTX 3050 makes use of a 8 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core frequency at 1552 MHz. The GDDR6 memory runs at a speed of 1750 MHz on this particular card. It features 2560 SPUs along with 80 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

Compare that to the Radeon RX 5500 XT, which comes with core speeds of 1717 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 8192 MB of GDDR6 RAM. It features 1408 SPUs as well as 88 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Both cards have the same power consumption.

Memory Bandwidth

Both cards have exactly the same bandwidth, so theoretically they should have the same performance. (explain)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5500 XT is much (about 22%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce RTX 3050. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500 XT 151096 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3050 124160 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 26936 (22%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5500 XT is a small bit (approximately 11%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce RTX 3050, and should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500 XT 54944 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 3050 49664 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 5280 (11%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

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GeForce RTX 3050

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Specifications

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Model GeForce RTX 3050 Radeon RX 5500 XT
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year January 2022 December 2019
Code Name Ampere GA106-150-KA-A1 Navi 14 XTX
Memory 8192 MB 8192 MB
Core Speed 1552 MHz 1717 MHz
Memory Speed 1750 GB/s 1750 GB/s
Power (Max TDP) 130 watts 130 watts
Bandwidth 229376 MB/sec 229376 MB/sec
Texel Rate 124160 Mtexels/sec 151096 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 49664 Mpixels/sec 54944 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 2560 1408
Texture Mapping Units 80 88
Render Output Units 32 32
Bus Type GDDR6 GDDR6
Bus Width 128-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 8 nm 7 nm
Transistors 12000 million 6400 million
Bus PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 ×16
DirectX Version DirectX 12 DirectX 12
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.6 OpenGL 4.6

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.

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GeForce RTX 3050

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Radeon RX 5500 XT

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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