NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB and 20GB VRAM Radeon RX 7900 XT 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

Lower TDP (130W vs 300W)

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 35% (2394MHz vs 1777MHz)

More VRAM (20GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (800.0GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

2816 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

9.098 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 7900 XT +465%

51.48 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

6254

Radeon RX 7900 XT +327%

26739

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

20

Radeon RX 7900 XT +410%

102

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

42

Radeon RX 7900 XT +388%

205

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

82

Radeon RX 7900 XT +264%

299

Cyberpunk 2077 2160p

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

22

Radeon RX 7900 XT +181%

62

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

28

Radeon RX 7900 XT +225%

91

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

38

Radeon RX 7900 XT +292%

149

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

40

Radeon RX 7900 XT +325%

170

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

48

Radeon RX 7900 XT +254%

170

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

114

Radeon RX 7900 XT +66%

190

Horizon Forbidden West 1080p

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

39

Radeon RX 7900 XT +235%

131

Horizon Forbidden West 1440p

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

29

Radeon RX 7900 XT +262%

105

Horizon Forbidden West 2160p

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

18

Radeon RX 7900 XT +277%

68

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

VS

Radeon RX 7900 XT

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Nov 2022

GeForce 30

Generation

Navi III

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1552 MHz

Base Clock

1387 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

2394 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

2500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

20GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

320bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

800.0GB/s

Render Config

20

SM Count

-

Compute Units

84

2560

Shading Units

5376

80

TMUs

336

32

ROPs

192

80

Tensor Cores

-

20

RT Cores

84

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

256 KB per Array

2 MB

L2 Cache

6 MB

Theoretical Performance

56.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

459.6 GPixel/s

142.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

804.4 GTexel/s

9.098 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

103.0 TFLOPS

9.098 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

51.48 TFLOPS

142.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1.609 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

Navi 31

GA106-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 31 XT (215-145000156)

Ampere

Architecture

RDNA 3.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

5 nm

12 billion

Transistors

57.7 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

529 mm²

Board Design

130W

TDP

300W

300 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1a 2x DisplayPort 2.1 1x USB Type-C

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.7

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