GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB vs Radeon RX 590
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 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 3 years and 2 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 13% (1740MHz vs 1545MHz)
Lower TDP (90W vs 175W)
Radeon RX 590 's Advantages
More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)
256 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB
7127
Radeon RX 590
7119
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB
+25%
30
Radeon RX 590
24
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB
+30%
60
Radeon RX 590
46
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB
+19%
85
Radeon RX 590
71
Battlefield 5 2160p
GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB
+28%
50
Radeon RX 590
39
Battlefield 5 1440p
GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB
73
Radeon RX 590
+1%
74
Battlefield 5 1080p
GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB
101
Radeon RX 590
101
GTA 5 2160p
GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB
38
Radeon RX 590
+10%
42
GTA 5 1440p
GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB
+10%
74
Radeon RX 590
67
GTA 5 1080p
GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB
110
Radeon RX 590
110
Graphics Card
Jan 2022
Release Date
Nov 2018
GeForce 30
Generation
Polaris
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1545 MHz
Base Clock
1469 MHz
1740 MHz
Boost Clock
1545 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
192.0GB/s
Bandwidth
256.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
36
16
SM Count
-
2048
Shading Units
2304
64
TMUs
144
32
ROPs
32
64
Tensor Cores
-
16
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
55.68 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
49.44 GPixel/s
111.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
222.5 GTexel/s
7.127 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
7.119 TFLOPS
7.127 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
7.119 TFLOPS
111.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
445.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
90W
TDP
175W
250 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GA107
GPU Name
Polaris 30
GA107-140-A1
GPU Variant
Polaris 30 XT
(215-0922006)
Ampere
Architecture
GCN 4.0
Samsung
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
8 nm
Process Size
12 nm
8.7 billion
Transistors
5.7 billion
200 mm²
Die Size
232 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.1
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
8.6
CUDA
-
6.7
Shader Model
6.4