AMD Radeon R9 295X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

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AMD Radeon R9 295X2

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 OEM 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)

512 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1755MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Lower TDP (130W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 295X2

5.733 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM +41%

8.087 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 295X2

VS

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

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

1515 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1755 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

44

Compute Units

-

SM Count

18

2816

Shading Units

2304

176

TMUs

72

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

72

-

RT Cores

18

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

65.15 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

56.16 GPixel/s

179.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

126.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

8.087 TFLOPS

5.733 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.087 TFLOPS

716.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

126.4 GFLOPS

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 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

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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