NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB vs AMD Radeon R9 270X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

AMD Radeon R9 270X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270X 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 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 66% (1740MHz vs 1050MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 179.2GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (90W vs 180W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +165%

7.127 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270X

2.688 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

VS

Radeon R9 270X

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Oct 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

1000 MHz

1740 MHz

Boost Clock

1050 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

33.60 GPixel/s

111.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.00 GTexel/s

7.127 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.127 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.688 TFLOPS

111.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

168.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

90W

TDP

180W

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

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

Curacao

GA107-140-A1

GPU Variant

Curacao XT (215-0848004)

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

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