NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 480

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB AMD Radeon RX 480

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 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 5 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 37% (1740MHz vs 1266MHz)

Lower TDP (90W vs 150W)

AMD Radeon RX 480 '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 +22%

7.127 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 480

5.834 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +392%

1841

Radeon RX 480

374

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +76%

30

Radeon RX 480

17

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +71%

60

Radeon RX 480

35

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +70%

85

Radeon RX 480

50

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +105%

74

Radeon RX 480

36

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +3%

110

Radeon RX 480

106

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

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Radeon RX 480

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Jun 2016

GeForce 30

Generation

Arctic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1545 MHz

Base Clock

1120 MHz

1740 MHz

Boost Clock

1266 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

16

SM Count

-

Compute Units

36

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

40.51 GPixel/s

111.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

182.3 GTexel/s

7.127 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

5.834 TFLOPS

7.127 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.834 TFLOPS

111.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

364.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

Ellesmere

GA107-140-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 4.0

Samsung

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

8 nm

Process Size

14 nm

8.7 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

90W

TDP

150W

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 6-pin

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

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