NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

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

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

1152 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 4% (1845MHz vs 1777MHz)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +75%

9.098 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5500 XT

5.196 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +27%

6247

Radeon RX 5500 XT

4901

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

20

Radeon RX 5500 XT +15%

23

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

42

Radeon RX 5500 XT +2%

43

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +15%

82

Radeon RX 5500 XT

71

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

29

Radeon RX 5500 XT +13%

33

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +1%

65

Radeon RX 5500 XT

64

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

82

Radeon RX 5500 XT +7%

88

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

40

Radeon RX 5500 XT +5%

42

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

48

Radeon RX 5500 XT +22%

59

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

114

Radeon RX 5500 XT +8%

124

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

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Radeon RX 5500 XT

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Dec 2019

GeForce 30

Generation

Navi

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1552 MHz

Base Clock

1607 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

1845 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

20

SM Count

-

Compute Units

22

2560

Shading Units

1408

80

TMUs

88

32

ROPs

32

80

Tensor Cores

-

20

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

56.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

59.04 GPixel/s

142.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

162.4 GTexel/s

9.098 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

10.39 TFLOPS

9.098 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.196 TFLOPS

142.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

324.7 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

Navi 14

GA106-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 14 XTX (215-0932396)

Ampere

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

7 nm

12 billion

Transistors

6.4 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

158 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 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.5

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