NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6GB vs AMD Radeon RX 590 GME

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6GB and AMD Radeon RX 590 GME 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, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6GB

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 3 month(s) later
  • Around 8% higher boost clock speed: 1492 MHz vs 1380 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 8 nm vs 14 nm
  • 2.3x lower typical power consumption: 75 Watt vs 175 Watt
  • Around 24% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 853 vs 687
  • Around 27% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 10704 vs 8457
  • 4.8x better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 4851 vs 1001
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 6 Jul 2022 vs 9 Mar 2020
Boost clock speed 1492 MHz vs 1380 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 8 nm vs 14 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 75 Watt vs 175 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 853 vs 687
PassMark - G3D Mark 10704 vs 8457
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 4851 vs 1001

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 590 GME

  • Around 2% higher core clock speed: 1257 MHz vs 1237 MHz
  • Around 66% higher texture fill rate: 198.7 GTexel/s vs 119.4 GTexel/s
  • Around 33% higher maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 6 GB
  • Around 33% higher memory clock speed: 2000 MHz (8 Gbps effective) vs 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective
Core clock speed 1257 MHz vs 1237 MHz
Texture fill rate 198.7 GTexel/s vs 119.4 GTexel/s
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 6 GB
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz (8 Gbps effective) vs 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6GB
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX 590 GME

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
853
687
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
10704
8457
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score
GPU 1
GPU 2
4851
1001
Name NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6GB AMD Radeon RX 590 GME
PassMark - G2D Mark 853 687
PassMark - G3D Mark 10704 8457
Geekbench - OpenCL 57286
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 4851 1001
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 5140
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 5140
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 6839
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 6839
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 20161
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 20161

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6GB AMD Radeon RX 590 GME

Essentials

Architecture Ampere GCN 4.0
Code name GA107 Polaris 20
Launch date 6 Jul 2022 9 Mar 2020
Place in performance rating 132 228
Design Radeon RX 500 Series
Type Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1492 MHz 1380 MHz
Core clock speed 1237 MHz 1257 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 8 nm 14 nm
Pipelines 2560
Pixel fill rate 47.74 GPixel/s 44.16 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 119.4 GTexel/s 198.7 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 75 Watt 175 Watt
Transistor count 8700 million 5700 million
Compute units 36
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 397.4 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 6.359 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 6.359 TFLOPS
Render output units 32
Stream Processors 2304
Texture Units 144

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors Portable Device Dependent 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor IGP
Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None 1x 8-pin
Length 241 mm (9.5 inches)
Recommended system power (PSU) 450 Watt
Width Dual-slot

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12.0 (12_0)
OpenCL 3.0 2.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Shader Model 6.7 6.4
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 2000 MHz (8 Gbps effective)
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR5

Technologies

4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support