NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB vs AMD Radeon R9 270X

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB and AMD Radeon R9 270X 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, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB

AMD Radeon R9 270X

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB

Videocard is newer: launch date 11 year(s) 8 month(s) later
Around 66% higher boost clock speed: 1740 MHz vs 1050 MHz
1491.7x more texture fill rate: 125.3 GTexel/s vs 84 GTexel / s
Around 80% higher pipelines: 2304 vs 1280
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 8 nm vs 28 nm
2x lower typical power consumption: 90 Watt vs 180 Watt
2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2 GB
Around 54% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 942 vs 613
2.6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 12873 vs 4869

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	2022 vs 8 October 2013
Boost clock speed	1740 MHz vs 1050 MHz
Texture fill rate	125.3 GTexel/s vs 84 GTexel / s
Pipelines	2304 vs 1280
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	90 Watt vs 180 Watt
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 2 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	942 vs 613
PassMark - G3D Mark	12873 vs 4869

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 270X

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

942

613

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

12873

4869

Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB	AMD Radeon R9 270X
PassMark - G2D Mark	942	613
PassMark - G3D Mark	12873	4869
Geekbench - OpenCL	49885
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		63.87
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		1314.72
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		6.354
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		85.21
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		315.412
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		8068
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3706
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3350
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		8068
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3706
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3350
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		1772

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB	AMD Radeon R9 270X
Essentials
Architecture	Ampere	GCN 1.0
Code name	GA107	Curacao
Launch date	2022	8 October 2013
Place in performance rating	88	440
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Design		AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
Launch price (MSRP)		$199
Price now		$399
Value for money (0-100)		16.05
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1740 MHz	1050 MHz
Core clock speed	1545 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	28 nm
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
Pipelines	2304	1280
Pixel fill rate	55.68 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	125.3 GTexel/s	84 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	90 Watt	180 Watt
Floating-point performance		2,688 gflops
Stream Processors		1280
Transistor count		2,800 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
HDMI
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Dual-slot
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	242 mm, 9.5 inches
Recommended system power (PSU)	250 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	2 x 6-pin
Width	112 mm, 4.4 inches
Bus support		PCIe 3.0
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12
OpenCL	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	224.0 GB/s	179.2 GB/s
Memory bus width	128 bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
AppAcceleration
CrossFire
DDMA audio
FreeSync
HD3D
LiquidVR
TressFX
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)