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GeForce RTX 3050 vs Radeon RX 590

Intro

The GeForce RTX 3050 comes with a GPU clock speed of 1552 MHz, and the 8192 MB of GDDR6 RAM runs at 1750 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 2560 SPUs, 80 Texture Address Units, and 32 ROPs.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 590, which comes with a clock frequency of 1469 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 2000 MHz. It also makes use of a 256-bit memory bus, and uses a 12 nm design. It features 2304 SPUs, 144 Texture Address Units, and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 3050 130 Watts
Radeon RX 590 175 Watts
Difference: 45 Watts (35%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon RX 590 should in theory be a little bit better than the GeForce RTX 3050 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 590 262144 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 3050 229376 MB/sec
Difference: 32768 (14%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 590 is quite a bit (about 70%) better at AF than the GeForce RTX 3050. (explain)

Radeon RX 590 211536 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3050 124160 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 87376 (70%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 3050 is superior to the Radeon RX 590, though only just barely. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3050 49664 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 590 47008 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 2656 (6%)

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 RX 590
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year January 2022 November 2018
Code Name Ampere GA106-150-KA-A1 Polaris 30
Memory 8192 MB 8192 MB
Core Speed 1552 MHz 1469 MHz
Memory Speed 1750 GB/s 8000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 130 watts 175 watts
Bandwidth 229376 MB/sec 262144 MB/sec
Texel Rate 124160 Mtexels/sec 211536 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 49664 Mpixels/sec 47008 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 2560 2304
Texture Mapping Units 80 144
Render Output Units 32 32
Bus Type GDDR6 GDDR5
Bus Width 128-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 8 nm 12 nm
Transistors 12000 million 5700 million
Bus PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 12 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.6 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce RTX 3050

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Radeon RX 590

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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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