AMD Radeon R9 295X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

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AMD Radeon R9 295X2 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 295X2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Lower TDP (130W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 295X2

5.733 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +58%

9.098 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 295X2

VS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

Graphics Card

Apr 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

1552 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

20

44

Compute Units

-

2816

Shading Units

2560

176

TMUs

80

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

80

-

RT Cores

20

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

65.15 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

56.86 GPixel/s

179.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

142.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

9.098 TFLOPS

5.733 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.098 TFLOPS

716.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

142.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Vesuvius

GPU Name

GA106

Vesuvius XT (215-0852022)

GPU Variant

GA106-150-KA-A1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

12 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Board Design

500W

TDP

130W

900 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

6.3

Shader Model

6.6

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