GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB vs Radeon R9 270
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 2 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 88% (1740MHz vs 925MHz)
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 179.2GB/s)
768 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (90W vs 150W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB
+200%
7127
Radeon R9 270
2368
Graphics Card
Jan 2022
Release Date
Nov 2013
GeForce 30
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1545 MHz
Base Clock
900 MHz
1740 MHz
Boost Clock
925 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
1400 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
192.0GB/s
Bandwidth
179.2GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
20
16
SM Count
-
2048
Shading Units
1280
64
TMUs
80
32
ROPs
32
64
Tensor Cores
-
16
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
55.68 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
111.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
74.00 GTexel/s
7.127 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
7.127 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.368 TFLOPS
111.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
148.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
90W
TDP
150W
250 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GA107
GPU Name
Curacao
GA107-140-A1
GPU Variant
Curacao PRO
(215-0848000)
Ampere
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
28 nm
8.7 billion
Transistors
2.8 billion
200 mm²
Die Size
212 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
8.6
CUDA
-
6.7
Shader Model
5.1
