NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 480

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

AMD Radeon RX 480

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

Released 7 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 16% (1470MHz vs 1266MHz)

Lower TDP (70W vs 150W)

AMD Radeon RX 480 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 168.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB +16%

6.774 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 480

5.834 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB +16%

4838

Radeon RX 480

4164

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

VS

Radeon RX 480

Graphics Card

Feb 2024

Release Date

Jun 2016

GeForce 30

Generation

Arctic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1042 MHz

Base Clock

1120 MHz

1470 MHz

Boost Clock

1266 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

96bit

Memory Bus

256bit

168.0GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

36

18

SM Count

-

2304

Shading Units

2304

72

TMUs

144

32

ROPs

32

72

Tensor Cores

-

18

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

47.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

40.51 GPixel/s

105.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

182.3 GTexel/s

6.774 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

5.834 TFLOPS

6.774 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.834 TFLOPS

105.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

364.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

70W

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

Ellesmere

GA107-325-K2-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

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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