NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107 vs AMD Radeon RX 590

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107 AMD Radeon RX 590

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 15% (1777MHz vs 1545MHz)

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (115W vs 175W)

AMD Radeon RX 590 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107 +27%

9.098 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 590

7.119 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107

VS

Radeon RX 590

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Nov 2018

GeForce 30

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1552 MHz

Base Clock

1469 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

1545 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

20

SM Count

-

Compute Units

36

2560

Shading Units

2304

80

TMUs

144

32

ROPs

32

80

Tensor Cores

-

20

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

56.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

49.44 GPixel/s

142.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

222.5 GTexel/s

9.098 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

7.119 TFLOPS

9.098 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.119 TFLOPS

142.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

445.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

Polaris 30

GA107-150-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 30 XT (215-0922006)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 4.0

Samsung

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

8 nm

Process Size

12 nm

Unknown

Transistors

5.7 billion

Unknown

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

115W

TDP

175W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-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

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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