NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6GB vs AMD Radeon Pro VII

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6GB and AMD Radeon Pro VII 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: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6GB

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 1 month(s) later
  • 3.3x lower typical power consumption: 75 Watt vs 250 Watt
  • Around 50% higher memory clock speed: 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective vs 1000 MHz (2 Gbps effective)
Launch date 6 Jul 2022 vs 13 May 2020
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 75 Watt vs 250 Watt
Memory clock speed 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective vs 1000 MHz (2 Gbps effective)

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro VII

  • Around 13% higher core clock speed: 1400 MHz vs 1237 MHz
  • Around 14% higher boost clock speed: 1700 MHz vs 1492 MHz
  • 3.4x more texture fill rate: 408 GTexel/s vs 119.4 GTexel/s
  • Around 50% higher pipelines: 3840 vs 2560
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 8 nm
  • 2.7x more maximum memory size: 16 GB vs 6 GB
  • Around 64% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 89937 vs 54878
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1400 MHz vs 1237 MHz
Boost clock speed 1700 MHz vs 1492 MHz
Texture fill rate 408 GTexel/s vs 119.4 GTexel/s
Pipelines 3840 vs 2560
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm vs 8 nm
Maximum memory size 16 GB vs 6 GB
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 89937 vs 54878

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6GB
GPU 2: AMD Radeon Pro VII

Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
54878
89937
Name NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6GB AMD Radeon Pro VII
PassMark - G2D Mark 606
PassMark - G3D Mark 10492
Geekbench - OpenCL 54878 89937
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 5377

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6GB AMD Radeon Pro VII

Essentials

Architecture Ampere GCN 5.1
Code name GA107 Vega 20
Launch date 6 Jul 2022 13 May 2020
Place in performance rating 186 192
Launch price (MSRP) $1899
Type Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1492 MHz 1700 MHz
Core clock speed 1237 MHz 1400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 8 nm 7 nm
Pipelines 2560 3840
Pixel fill rate 47.74 GPixel/s 108.8 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 119.4 GTexel/s 408 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 75 Watt 250 Watt
Transistor count 8700 million 13230 million
Compute units 60
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 6.528 TFLOPS (1:2)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 26.11 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 13.06 TFLOPS

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors Portable Device Dependent 6x mini-DisplayPort

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor IGP Dual-slot
Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Length 305 mm (12 inches)
Recommended system power (PSU) 600 Watt
Width 111 mm (4.4 inches)

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12.1
OpenCL 3.0 2.1
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Shader Model 6.7 6.4
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 16 GB
Memory bandwidth 144.0 GB/s 1024 GB/s
Memory bus width 96 bit 4096 bit
Memory clock speed 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective 1000 MHz (2 Gbps effective)
Memory type GDDR6 HBM2
High bandwidth memory (HBM)