NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6GB vs AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop)

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6GB and AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop) videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6GB

AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop)

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6GB

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 2 month(s) later
Around 11% higher boost clock speed: 1492 MHz vs 1340 MHz
Around 11% higher pipelines: 2560 vs 2304
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 8 nm vs 14 nm
2.5x lower typical power consumption: 75 Watt vs 185 Watt
Around 38% better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 4851 vs 3510

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	6 Jul 2022 vs 18 April 2017
Boost clock speed	1492 MHz vs 1340 MHz
Pipelines	2560 vs 2304
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm vs 14 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt vs 185 Watt
Benchmarks
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	4851 vs 3510

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop)

Around 2% higher core clock speed: 1257 MHz vs 1237 MHz
Around 62% higher texture fill rate: 192.96 GTexel/s vs 119.4 GTexel/s
Around 33% higher maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 6 GB
5.3x more memory clock speed: 8000 MHz vs 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective

Core clock speed	1257 MHz vs 1237 MHz
Texture fill rate	192.96 GTexel/s vs 119.4 GTexel/s
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 6 GB
Memory clock speed	8000 MHz vs 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6GB
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop)

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score

GPU 1

GPU 2

4851

3510

Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6GB	AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop)
PassMark - G2D Mark	853
PassMark - G3D Mark	10704
Geekbench - OpenCL	57286
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	4851	3510

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6GB	AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop)
Essentials
Architecture	Ampere	GCN 4.0
Code name	GA107	Polaris 20
Launch date	6 Jul 2022	18 April 2017
Place in performance rating	132	363
Design		Radeon RX 500 Series
GCN generation		4th Gen
Launch price (MSRP)		$301.69
Price now		$169.99
Type		Desktop
Value for money (0-100)		62.57
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1492 MHz	1340 MHz
Core clock speed	1237 MHz	1257 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	14 nm
Pipelines	2560	2304
Pixel fill rate	47.74 GPixel/s	42.88 GP/s
Texture fill rate	119.4 GTexel/s	192.96 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt	185 Watt
Transistor count	8700 million	5,700 million
Compute units		36
Floating-point performance		6.2 TFLOPs
Render output units		32
Stream Processors		2304
Texture Units		144
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	Portable Device Dependent	No outputs
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	IGP
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors	None
Bridgeless CrossFire
Laptop size		large
Recommended system power (PSU)		500 Watt
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12
OpenCL	3.0	2.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	8 GB
Memory bandwidth	144.0 GB/s	256 GB/s
Memory bus width	96 bit	256 bit
Memory clock speed	1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective	8000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Technologies
4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Eyefinity
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
AppAcceleration
CrossFire
FreeSync
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support
LiquidVR
PowerTune
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
VR Ready