NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB vs AMD Radeon R9 285X

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

AMD Radeon R9 285X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 285X 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

Boost Clock1470MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 3GB)

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (70W vs 200W)

AMD Radeon R9 285X 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 168.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB +65%

6.774 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 285X

4.104 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

VS

Radeon R9 285X

Graphics Card

Feb 2024

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 30

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1042 MHz

Base Clock

-

1470 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

96bit

Memory Bus

384bit

168.0GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

18

SM Count

-

2304

Shading Units

2048

72

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

72

Tensor Cores

-

18

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

47.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.06 GPixel/s

105.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.3 GTexel/s

6.774 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.774 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.104 TFLOPS

105.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

70W

TDP

200W

250 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

Tonga

GA107-325-K2-A1

GPU Variant

Tonga XT (215-0851313)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 3.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

8.7 billion

Transistors

5 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

366 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.6

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.3

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