GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB vs Radeon R9 390X
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB and 8GB VRAM Radeon R9 390X 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 6 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock1740MHz
Lower TDP (90W vs 275W)
Radeon R9 390X 's Advantages
More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)
768 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB
+20%
7127
Radeon R9 390X
5914
Graphics Card
Jan 2022
Release Date
Jun 2015
GeForce 30
Generation
Pirate Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1545 MHz
Base Clock
-
1740 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
512bit
192.0GB/s
Bandwidth
384.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
44
16
SM Count
-
2048
Shading Units
2816
64
TMUs
176
32
ROPs
64
64
Tensor Cores
-
16
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
55.68 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
67.20 GPixel/s
111.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
184.8 GTexel/s
7.127 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
7.127 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.914 TFLOPS
111.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
739.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
90W
TDP
275W
250 W
Suggested PSU
600 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 + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GA107
GPU Name
Grenada
GA107-140-A1
GPU Variant
Grenada XT
(215-0880004)
Ampere
Architecture
GCN 2.0
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
28 nm
8.7 billion
Transistors
6.2 billion
200 mm²
Die Size
438 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
8.6
CUDA
-
6.7
Shader Model
6.3