NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB vs AMD Radeon R9 270X

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB AMD Radeon R9 270X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 6 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 6 GB 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 40% (1470MHz vs 1050MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

1024 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (70W vs 180W)

AMD Radeon R9 270X 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 168.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB +152%

6.774 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270X

2.688 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB +173%

4832

Radeon R9 270X

1768

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

VS

Radeon R9 270X

Graphics Card

Feb 2024

Release Date

Oct 2013

GeForce 30

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1042 MHz

Base Clock

1000 MHz

1470 MHz

Boost Clock

1050 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

96bit

Memory Bus

256bit

168.0GB/s

Bandwidth

179.2GB/s

Render Config

18

SM Count

-

Compute Units

20

2304

Shading Units

1280

72

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

72

Tensor Cores

-

18

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

47.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.60 GPixel/s

105.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.00 GTexel/s

6.774 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.774 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.688 TFLOPS

105.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

168.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

Curacao

GA107-325-K2-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

Board Design

70W

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

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

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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