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GeForce RTX 3050 vs Radeon RX 5500

Intro

The GeForce RTX 3050 uses a 8 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 1552 MHz. The GDDR6 memory is set to run at a speed of 1750 MHz on this particular card. It features 2560 SPUs as well as 80 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

Compare that to the Radeon RX 5500, which has a clock speed of 1670 MHz and a GDDR6 memory frequency of 1750 MHz. It also features a 128-bit memory bus, and uses a 7 nm design. It is comprised of 1408 SPUs, 88 TAUs, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 3050 130 Watts
Radeon RX 5500 150 Watts
Difference: 20 Watts (15%)

Memory Bandwidth

Both cards have the exact same bandwidth, so in theory they should have identical performance. (explain)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5500 is a little bit (about 18%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce RTX 3050. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500 146960 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3050 124160 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 22800 (18%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5500 is a better choice, but it probably won't make a huge difference. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500 53440 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 3050 49664 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 3776 (8%)

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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Radeon RX 5500

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Specifications

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Model GeForce RTX 3050 Radeon RX 5500
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year January 2022 October 2019
Code Name Ampere GA106-150-KA-A1 Navi 14 XT
Memory 8192 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 1552 MHz 1670 MHz
Memory Speed 1750 GB/s 1750 GB/s
Power (Max TDP) 130 watts 150 watts
Bandwidth 229376 MB/sec 229376 MB/sec
Texel Rate 124160 Mtexels/sec 146960 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 49664 Mpixels/sec 53440 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 (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, 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 are processed in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce RTX 3050

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Radeon RX 5500

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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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