NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM vs AMD Radeon R5 230

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

AMD Radeon R5 230

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 OEM and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R5 230 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1755MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 10.67GB/s)

2144 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R5 230 's Advantages

Lower TDP (19W vs 130W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM +3943%

8.087 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 230

0.2 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

VS

Radeon R5 230

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Apr 2014

GeForce 30

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1515 MHz

Base Clock

-

1755 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

667 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

10.67GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

2

18

SM Count

-

2304

Shading Units

160

72

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

72

Tensor Cores

-

18

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

56.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.500 GPixel/s

126.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.000 GTexel/s

8.087 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

8.087 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

200.0 GFLOPS

126.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

130W

TDP

19W

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

Caicos

GA106-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Caicos PRO

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale 2

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

12 billion

Transistors

0.37 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.0

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