NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB vs AMD Radeon R7 240 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB AMD Radeon R7 240 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 240 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 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 128% (1777MHz vs 780MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

2240 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R7 240 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 130W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +1723%

9.098 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 240 OEM

0.499 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

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Radeon R7 240 OEM

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Nov 2013

GeForce 30

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1552 MHz

Base Clock

730 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

780 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

20

SM Count

-

Compute Units

5

2560

Shading Units

320

80

TMUs

20

32

ROPs

8

80

Tensor Cores

-

20

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

56.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.240 GPixel/s

142.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.60 GTexel/s

9.098 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

9.098 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

499.2 GFLOPS

142.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

31.20 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

Oland

GA106-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

-

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12 billion

Transistors

0.95 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

77 mm²

Board Design

130W

TDP

50W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

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

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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