NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 470

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

AMD Radeon RX 470

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470 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 5 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 47% (1777MHz vs 1206MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 211.2GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 470 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 130W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +84%

9.098 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 470

4.94 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +70%

6261

Radeon RX 470

3678

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +66%

20

Radeon RX 470

12

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +68%

42

Radeon RX 470

25

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +105%

82

Radeon RX 470

40

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +17%

40

Radeon RX 470

34

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +12%

110

Radeon RX 470

98

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

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Radeon RX 470

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Aug 2016

GeForce 30

Generation

Arctic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1552 MHz

Base Clock

926 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

1206 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1650 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

211.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

20

SM Count

-

2560

Shading Units

2048

80

TMUs

128

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

38.59 GPixel/s

142.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

154.4 GTexel/s

9.098 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

4.940 TFLOPS

9.098 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.940 TFLOPS

142.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

308.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

130W

TDP

120W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

Ellesmere

GA106-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 PRO (215-0876204)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 4.0

Samsung

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

8 nm

Process Size

14 nm

12 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

276 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

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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