AMD Radeon R9 M280X vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh

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AMD Radeon R9 M280X NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M280X and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 49% (1492MHz vs 1000MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (144.0GB/s vs 88.00GB/s)

1152 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M280X

1.792 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh +241%

6.111 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M280X

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GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh

Graphics Card

Feb 2015

Release Date

Jul 2022

Gem System

Generation

GeForce 30 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

1237 MHz

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

1492 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

96bit

88.00GB/s

Bandwidth

144.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

16

14

Compute Units

-

896

Shading Units

2048

56

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

64

-

RT Cores

16

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

16.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

47.74 GPixel/s

56.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

95.49 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

6.111 TFLOPS

1.792 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.111 TFLOPS

112.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

95.49 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Saturn

GPU Name

GA107

Saturn XT (216-0843024)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

Unknown

160 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

75W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

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

6.6

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