NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 470D

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

AMD Radeon RX 470D

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470D 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 3 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)

768 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 470D 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 130W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +110%

9.098 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 470D

4.322 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

VS

Radeon RX 470D

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Oct 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

28

20

SM Count

-

2560

Shading Units

1792

80

TMUs

112

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

135.1 GTexel/s

9.098 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

4.322 TFLOPS

9.098 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.322 TFLOPS

142.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

270.1 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 PROD

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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