NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB vs AMD Radeon R9 280

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

AMD Radeon R9 280

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 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 7 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 86% (1740MHz vs 933MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (90W vs 200W)

AMD Radeon R9 280 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +113%

7.127 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280

3.344 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

VS

Radeon R9 280

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Mar 2014

GeForce 30

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1545 MHz

Base Clock

827 MHz

1740 MHz

Boost Clock

933 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

28

16

SM Count

-

2048

Shading Units

1792

64

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

32

64

Tensor Cores

-

16

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

55.68 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.86 GPixel/s

111.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

104.5 GTexel/s

7.127 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.127 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.344 TFLOPS

111.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

836.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

90W

TDP

200W

250 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 2x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

Tahiti

GA107-140-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

8.7 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

352 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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