AMD Radeon 780M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon 780M and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon 780M

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon 780M

Around 67% higher boost clock speed: 2900 MHz vs 1740 MHz
Around 11% higher texture fill rate: 139.2 GTexel/s vs 125.3 GTexel/s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 4 nm vs 8 nm
6x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 90 Watt

Boost clock speed	2900 MHz vs 1740 MHz
Texture fill rate	139.2 GTexel/s vs 125.3 GTexel/s
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm vs 8 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 90 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 4 month(s) later
Around 3% higher core clock speed: 1545 MHz vs 1500 MHz
3x more pipelines: 2304 vs 768
Around 79% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 49885 vs 27793
Around 7% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 942 vs 879
Around 84% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 12873 vs 6998

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	2022 vs 4 Jan 2023
Core clock speed	1545 MHz vs 1500 MHz
Pipelines	2304 vs 768
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	49885 vs 27793
PassMark - G2D Mark	942 vs 879
PassMark - G3D Mark	12873 vs 6998

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon 780M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

27793

49885

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

879

942

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

6998

12873

Name	AMD Radeon 780M	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB
Geekbench - OpenCL	27793	49885
PassMark - G2D Mark	879	942
PassMark - G3D Mark	6998	12873
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	480

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon 780M	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 3.0	Ampere
Code name	Phoenix	GA107
Launch date	4 Jan 2023	2022
Place in performance rating	240	88
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2900 MHz	1740 MHz
Compute units	12
Core clock speed	1500 MHz	1545 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm	8 nm
Pipelines	768	2304
Pixel fill rate	92.80 GPixel/s	55.68 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	139.2 GTexel/s	125.3 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt	90 Watt
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance		125.3 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance		8.018 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance		8.018 TFLOPS
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	Portable Device Dependent	1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
DisplayPort support
HDMI
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	IGP	Dual-slot
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	PCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x 6-pin
Length		242 mm, 9.5 inches
Recommended system power (PSU)		250 Watt
Width		112 mm, 4.4 inches
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL	2.1	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.7	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	System Shared	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	System Dependent	224.0 GB/s
Memory bus width	System Shared	128 bit
Memory clock speed	System Shared	1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
Memory type	System Shared	GDDR6