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GeForce RTX 3050 vs Radeon RX 5500 XT

Intro

The GeForce RTX 3050 comes with a core clock frequency of 1552 MHz and a GDDR6 memory speed of 1750 MHz. It also makes use of a 128-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 8 nm design. It features 2560 SPUs, 80 TAUs, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

Compare that to the Radeon RX 5500 XT, which comes with a core clock speed of 1717 MHz and a GDDR6 memory speed of 1750 MHz. It also features a 128-bit bus, and makes use of a 7 nm design. It features 1408 SPUs, 88 Texture Address Units, and 32 Raster Operation 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 identical performance. (explain)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5500 XT is a lot (more or less 22%) faster with regards to 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

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5500 XT is the winner, but only just. (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: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. 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 - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum 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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