AMD Radeon R9 270X vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

VS

AMD Radeon R9 270X

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270X and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 270X 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 168.0GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 40% (1470MHz vs 1050MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

1024 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (70W vs 180W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 270X

2.688 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB +152%

6.774 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R9 270X

1769

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB +173%

4838

Radeon R9 270X

VS

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Feb 2024

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

1042 MHz

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

1470 MHz

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

96bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

168.0GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

18

1280

Shading Units

2304

80

TMUs

72

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

72

-

RT Cores

18

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

33.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

47.04 GPixel/s

84.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

105.8 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

6.774 TFLOPS

2.688 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.774 TFLOPS

168.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

105.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

180W

TDP

70W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Curacao

GPU Name

GA107

Curacao XT (215-0848004)

GPU Variant

GA107-325-K2-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

8.7 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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