AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT vs GeForce RTX 3050

We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 5700 XT with 2560 shaders against the 2 years and 8 months newer GeForce RTX 3050 that utilizes 20 pipelines and 2560 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

Review

General comparison of performance in games, applications, power efficiency, and other metrics
Gaming
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, and Vulkan games
Workstation
Perf. in 3D modeling, video editing and rendering apps
AI/ML
Capabilities for machine learning and AI-related tasks
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
DeviceFacts Final Score
Overall video card score

Value for money (Beta)

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Currency
8 GB GDDR6
VS
8 GB GDDR6
75.7
(Good)
Value Index
47.6
(Average)

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of RTX 3050 over RX 5700 XT
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 5700 XT
  • Performs better (up to 35%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Shows 36% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 57 vs 42 FPS
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 7 nm process technology
  • Has 2x higher memory bandwidth: 448 vs 224 GB/s
  • Achieves 22% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (81K vs 67K)
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 3050
  • Ray-tracing support with 20 dedicated RT cores
  • Supports Nvidia DLSS 2 technology
  • Features 80 tensor cores for effective deep learning and AI workloads

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
131
73
57
35
92
53
43
26
The Witcher 3
113
94
66
36
90
70
49
24
Counter-Strike 2
185
128
91
47
139
101
72
31
Far Cry 6
102
86
64
36
76
66
49
25
Hogwarts Legacy
67
56
39
18
49
38
30
13
CoD: Modern Warfare III
90
85
55
35
59
49
35
22
Ghost of Tsushima
75
58
39
21
46
35
28
15
Cyberpunk 2077
69
62
33
15
48
45
26
11
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
121
107
72
35
80
73
49
25
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 106 75
1080p Ultra 83 59
1440p Ultra 57 42
4K Ultra 31 21
Margin of Error Low Low

Benchmarks

Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps

3D Mark

Multiplatform graphics benchmark suite that directly correlates with performance in modern games
Steel Nomad Lite Score
RX 5700 XT +35%
8566
6348
Time Spy 9421 6235
Solar Bay - 30191
Port Royal - 3546
Fire Strike 27551 15967
Wild Life Extreme 18403 12795
Night Raid 103057 74854
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
RX 5700 XT +22%
81739
67028
Background Blur 148 img/sec 110.4 img/sec
Face Detection 89.5 img/sec 64.4 img/sec
Horizon Detection 3.52 Gpixels/sec 2.87 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 4.98 Gpixels/sec 3.76 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 4.11 Gpixels/sec 2.89 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.75 Gpixels/sec 0.81 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 295.8 Gpixels/sec 270.9 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 10480.7 FPS 9339.7 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU
4722

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
RX 5700 XT +29%
16032
12471
G2D Mark 920 916
DirectX 11 115 FPS 90 FPS
DirectX 12 63 FPS 59 FPS
GPU Compute 7516 Ops/s 6415 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 18342 & 9379 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
976.85
RTX 3050 +50%
1462.18
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 959 & 1092 samples

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Radeon RX 5700 XT
No benchmark results yet
GeForce RTX 3050
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-04-21 -> DmitryDmitryCinebench 20244722
📘 2026-04-21 -> DmitryDmitrySteel Nomad Light6237

Artificial Intelligence Tests

Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasks

GeekBench 6 ML

Tests throughput of AI operations in single, half, and quantized precision
GB6 ML Single Precision
RX 5700 XT +26%
14920
11848
GB6 ML Half Precision
16852
RTX 3050 +27%
21368
GB6 ML Quantized
RX 5700 XT +50%
11883
7905
Image Classification (SP) 6764 4958
Image Segmentation (HP) 7615 12747
Image Super Resolution (Q) 19081 9816
Face Detection (HP) 20621 22467
Pose Estimation (Q) 73667 41362
Text Classification (SP) 1970 2563
Machine Translation (HP) 2417 3721
Object Detection (SP) 6684 5929
Depth Estimation (Q) 30456 18361
Style Transfer (SP) 147087 84665
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX 5700 XT and GeForce RTX 3050

General

Vendor Amd Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released July 7, 2019 January 27, 2022
Launch price (MSRP) $399 $249
Case Desktop Desktop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment High-end Entry-level
Architecture RDNA 1.0 Ampere
GPU Codename Navi 10 GA106
Rival Equivalent - GeForce RTX 3060 -
Successor - Radeon RX 9070 -
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i5 9600K or above - Intel Core i5 12400 or above
Desktop GPU rating (65th and 71st place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1605 MHz 1552 MHz
Boost Clock 1905 MHz 1777 MHz
Shading Units 2560 2560
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 160 80
Render Output Units (ROPs) 64 32
Compute Units (Pipelines) - 20
Tensor Cores No 80
Ray-tracing Cores No 20
L1 Cache - 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 4MB shared 2MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 122 GPixel/s 57 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 305 GTexel/s 142 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
9.8 TFLOPS
9.1 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x8
TGP 225 W 130 W
Manufacturing TSMC Samsung
Fabrication Process 7 nm 8 nm
Die Size 251 mm² 276 mm²
Transistor Count 10 billion 12 billion
Transistor Density 39.84 MTr/mm² 43.48 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory Size 8 GB 8 GB
Memory Clock 1750 MHz 1750 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 14000 Mbps 14000 Mbps
Bus 256-bit 128-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
RX 5700 XT +100%
448 GB/s
224 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.1 3.0
CUDA - 8.6
Ray Tracing No Yes
DLSS No DLSS 2
DisplayPort 1.4a 1.4a

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