NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8490 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

2400 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (35W vs 130W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +3149%

9.098 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8490 OEM

0.28 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

VS

Radeon HD 8490 OEM

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Jul 2013

GeForce 30

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1552 MHz

Base Clock

-

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

2

20

SM Count

-

2560

Shading Units

160

80

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

80

Tensor Cores

-

20

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

56.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.500 GPixel/s

142.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

7.000 GTexel/s

9.098 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

9.098 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

280.0 GFLOPS

142.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

130W

TDP

35W

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x DisplayPort 1.1

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

Caicos

GA106-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Caicos XTX

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale 2

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

12 billion

Transistors

0.37 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.0

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