AMD Radeon RX 5500M vs GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile
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AMD Radeon RX 5500M
Navi 14
We compared two discrete laptop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 5500M with 22 pipelines and 1408 shaders against the 2 years and 3 months newer GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile that utilizes 16 pipelines and 2048 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.
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Review
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
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score
Key differences
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 5500M
- Manufactured using a more efficient 7 nm process technology
- Has 2x higher memory bandwidth: 224 vs 112 GB/s
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile
- 30% higher maximum theoretical performance (6 vs 4.6 TFLOPS)
- Ray-tracing support with 16 dedicated RT cores
- Has 45% more shading units (2048 vs 1408)
- Features 64 tensor cores for effective deep learning and AI workloads
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 72 38 32 15 |
66 38 28 18 |
| The Witcher 3 | 48 39 21 11 |
49 40 24 14 |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 70 48 33 16 |
87 61 41 17 |
| Far Cry 6 | 52 46 31 15 |
48 45 34 15 |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 29 25 17 10 |
29 22 17 9 |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 44 37 27 15 |
37 32 21 15 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 30 20 16 9 |
27 20 15 9 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 30 28 14 - |
28 24 14 - |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 55 47 28 16 |
51 50 31 15 |
| 1080p High | 48 | 47 |
| 1080p Ultra | 36 | 37 |
| 1440p Ultra | 24 | 25 |
| 4K Ultra | 13 | 13 |
| Margin of Error | Low | Low |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 4287 | 3932 |
| Solar Bay | - | 19073 |
| Port Royal | - | 413 |
| Fire Strike | 12813 | 10472 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 6440 | 7222 |
| Night Raid | 42057 | 45365 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 89.3 img/sec | 73.3 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 50.3 img/sec | 39.7 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 1.91 Gpixels/sec | 1.65 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 2.74 Gpixels/sec | 2.13 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 2.25 Gpixels/sec | 2.06 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 0.49 Gpixels/sec | 0.55 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 159.9 Gpixels/sec | 191.1 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 5898.4 FPS | 5921.5 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 414 | 479 |
| DirectX 11 | 36 FPS | 47 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 30 FPS | 42 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 2339 Ops/s | 3507 Ops/s |
Blender
Blender GPU
Recent User Tests
Radeon RX 5500M
No benchmark results yet
GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2026-06-20 (ZB) | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 45651 |
Artificial Intelligence Tests
Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasksGeekBench 6 ML
GB6 ML Single Precision
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
| Image Classification (SP) | 2845 | 3489 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 3023 | 7528 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 8505 | 6509 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 8964 | 13217 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 29278 | 24531 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 1142 | 2148 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 1920 | 2764 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 3032 | 3948 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 14009 | 13355 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 58664 | 60626 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Radeon RX 5500M and GeForce RTX 2050 MobileGeneral
| Vendor | Amd | Nvidia |
| Build | Discrete | Discrete |
| Released | October 7, 2019 | December 17, 2021 |
| Case | Laptop | Laptop |
| Purpose | Gaming | Gaming |
| Segment | High-end | Mid-range |
| Architecture | RDNA 1.0 | Ampere |
| GPU Codename | Navi 14 | GA107 |
| Successor | - Radeon RX 6500M | - |
| Recommended CPU | - AMD Ryzen 5 5600H or above | - Intel Core i5 11500H or above |
Laptop GPU ranking (113th and 96th place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 1375 MHz | 735-1185 MHz (configurable) |
| Boost Clock | 1645 MHz | 1245-1477 MHz (configurable) |
| Shading Units | 1408 | 2048 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 88 | 64 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 32 | 32 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 22 | 16 |
| Tensor Cores | No | 64 |
| Ray-tracing Cores | No | 16 |
| L1 Cache | - | 64KB per cluster |
| L2 Cache | 2MB shared | 2MB shared |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 53 GPixel/s | 40-47 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 145 GTexel/s | 80-95 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x8 | PCIe 3.0 x8 |
| TGP | 85 W | 30-45 W (configurable) |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | Samsung |
| Fabrication Process | 7 nm | 8 nm |
| Die Size | 158 mm² | 200 mm² |
| Transistor Count | 6.4 billion | 8 billion |
| Transistor Density | 40.51 MTr/mm² | 40 MTr/mm² |
Memory
| Memory Type | GDDR6 | GDDR6 |
| Memory Size | 4 GB | 4 GB |
| Memory Clock | 1750 MHz | 1750 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | 14000 Mbps | 14000 Mbps |
| Bus | 128-bit | 64-bit |
| ECC | - | No |
Memory Bandwidth
API
| DirectX | 12 | 12 |
| Vulkan | 1.2 | 1.3 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 2.1 | 3.0 |
| CUDA | - | 8.6 |
| Ray Tracing | No | Yes |
| DLSS | No | No |
| DisplayPort | 1.4 | 1.4a |
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