NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB vs AMD Radeon VII

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

AMD Radeon VII

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB and 16GB VRAM Radeon VII 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 2 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 2% (1777MHz vs 1750MHz)

Lower TDP (130W vs 295W)

AMD Radeon VII 's Advantages

More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1020GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

9.098 TFLOPS

Radeon VII +47%

13.44 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

6261

Radeon VII +48%

9319

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

20

Radeon VII +120%

44

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

42

Radeon VII +95%

82

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

82

Radeon VII +39%

114

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

29

Radeon VII +124%

65

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

65

Radeon VII +75%

114

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

82

Radeon VII +86%

153

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

31

Radeon VII +112%

66

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

40

Radeon VII +55%

62

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

110

Radeon VII +23%

136

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

VS

Radeon VII

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Feb 2019

GeForce 30

Generation

Vega II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1552 MHz

Base Clock

1400 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

HBM2

128bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

1020GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

60

20

SM Count

-

2560

Shading Units

3840

80

TMUs

240

32

ROPs

64

80

Tensor Cores

-

20

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

56.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

112.0 GPixel/s

142.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

420.0 GTexel/s

9.098 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

26.88 TFLOPS

9.098 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.44 TFLOPS

142.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

3.360 TFLOPS

Board Design

130W

TDP

295W

300 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

Vega 20

GA106-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Vega 20 XT

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 5.1

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

7 nm

12 billion

Transistors

13.23 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

331 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.7

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