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GeForce RTX 3050 vs Radeon VII

Intro

The GeForce RTX 3050 comes with a clock speed of 1552 MHz and a GDDR6 memory frequency of 1750 MHz. It also features a 128-bit bus, and uses a 8 nm design. It is comprised of 2560 SPUs, 80 TAUs, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

Compare those specs to the Radeon VII, which has GPU clock speed of 1400 MHz, and 16384 MB of HBM2 memory running at 1000 MHz through a 4096-bit bus. It also features 3840 Stream Processors, 240 Texture Address Units, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 3050 130 Watts
Radeon VII 295 Watts
Difference: 165 Watts (127%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon VII is 357% faster than the GeForce RTX 3050 overall, due to its higher bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon VII 1048576 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 3050 229376 MB/sec
Difference: 819200 (357%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon VII should be a lot (about 171%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce RTX 3050. (explain)

Radeon VII 336000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3050 124160 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 211840 (171%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon VII is superior to the GeForce RTX 3050, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon VII 89600 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 3050 49664 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 39936 (80%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

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Model GeForce RTX 3050 Radeon VII
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year January 2022 2019
Code Name Ampere GA106-150-KA-A1 Vega 20 XT
Memory 8192 MB 16384 MB
Core Speed 1552 MHz 1400 MHz
Memory Speed 1750 GB/s 1000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 130 watts 295 watts
Bandwidth 229376 MB/sec 1048576 MB/sec
Texel Rate 124160 Mtexels/sec 336000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 49664 Mpixels/sec 89600 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 2560 3840
Texture Mapping Units 80 240
Render Output Units 32 64
Bus Type GDDR6 HBM2
Bus Width 128-bit 4096-bit
Fab Process 8 nm 7 nm
Transistors 12000 million 13230 million
Bus PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 12 DirectX 12
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.6 OpenGL 4.6

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce RTX 3050

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Radeon VII

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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