AMD Radeon RX 580 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

VS

AMD Radeon RX 580

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580 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 RX 580 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 168.0GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 10% (1470MHz vs 1340MHz)

Lower TDP (70W vs 185W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 580

6.175 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB +9%

6.774 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 580

4362

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB +10%

4838

Radeon RX 580

VS

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Feb 2024

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1257 MHz

Base Clock

1042 MHz

1340 MHz

Boost Clock

1470 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

96bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

168.0GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

-

SM Count

18

2304

Shading Units

2304

144

TMUs

72

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

72

-

RT Cores

18

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

42.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

47.04 GPixel/s

193.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

105.8 GTexel/s

6.175 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

6.774 TFLOPS

6.175 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.774 TFLOPS

385.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

105.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

185W

TDP

70W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Polaris 20

GPU Name

GA107

Polaris 20 XTX (215-0910038)

GPU Variant

GA107-325-K2-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Ampere

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

Samsung

14 nm

Process Size

8 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

8.7 billion

232 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

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

6.4

Shader Model

6.7

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