AMD Radeon R9 285 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

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AMD Radeon R9 285

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 285 and 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1740MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (90W vs 190W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 285

3.29 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +116%

7.127 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 285

VS

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Jan 2022

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1545 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1740 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

-

SM Count

16

1792

Shading Units

2048

112

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

64

-

RT Cores

16

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.38 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

55.68 GPixel/s

102.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

111.4 GTexel/s

3.290 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

7.127 TFLOPS

3.290 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.127 TFLOPS

205.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

111.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

190W

TDP

90W

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

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Tonga

GPU Name

GA107

Tonga PRO (215-0851128)

GPU Variant

GA107-140-A1

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

5 billion

Transistors

8.7 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

6.5

Shader Model

6.7

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