NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB vs AMD Radeon R5 230 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

AMD Radeon R5 230 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R5 230 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1740MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 10.67GB/s)

1888 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R5 230 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (19W vs 90W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +3463%

7.127 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 230 OEM

0.2 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

VS

Radeon R5 230 OEM

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Dec 2013

GeForce 30

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1545 MHz

Base Clock

-

1740 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

667 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

10.67GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

2

16

SM Count

-

2048

Shading Units

160

64

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

64

Tensor Cores

-

16

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

55.68 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.500 GPixel/s

111.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.000 GTexel/s

7.127 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.127 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

200.0 GFLOPS

111.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

90W

TDP

19W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

Caicos

GA107-140-A1

GPU Variant

Caicos PRO

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale 2

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

8.7 billion

Transistors

0.37 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.0

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