NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB vs AMD Radeon RX 590

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB and AMD Radeon RX 590 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 RX 590

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 8 month(s) later
Around 5% higher core clock speed: 1545 MHz vs 1469 MHz
Around 13% higher boost clock speed: 1740 MHz vs 1545 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 8 nm vs 12 nm
Around 94% lower typical power consumption: 90 Watt vs 175 Watt
Around 19% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 942 vs 789
Around 37% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 12873 vs 9374
Around 9% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 49885 vs 45591

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	2022 vs 15 November 2018
Core clock speed	1545 MHz vs 1469 MHz
Boost clock speed	1740 MHz vs 1545 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm vs 12 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	90 Watt vs 175 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	942 vs 789
PassMark - G3D Mark	12873 vs 9374
Geekbench - OpenCL	49885 vs 45591

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 590

Around 78% higher texture fill rate: 222.48 GTexel/s vs 125.3 GTexel/s
2x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 4 GB
4.6x more memory clock speed: 8000 MHz vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective

Texture fill rate	222.48 GTexel/s vs 125.3 GTexel/s
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 4 GB
Memory clock speed	8000 MHz vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX 590

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

942

789

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

12873

9374

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

49885

45591

Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB	AMD Radeon RX 590
PassMark - G2D Mark	942	789
PassMark - G3D Mark	12873	9374
Geekbench - OpenCL	49885	45591
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		137.469
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		2083.862
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		12.352
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		139.477
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		762.142
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		13383
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3716
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3359
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		13383
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3716
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3359
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		1081

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB	AMD Radeon RX 590
Essentials
Architecture	Ampere	GCN 4.0
Code name	GA107	Polaris 30
Launch date	2022	15 November 2018
Place in performance rating	88	280
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Design		Radeon RX 500 Series
Launch price (MSRP)		$279
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1740 MHz	1545 MHz
Core clock speed	1545 MHz	1469 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	12 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
Pixel fill rate	55.68 GPixel/s	49.54 GP/s
Texture fill rate	125.3 GTexel/s	222.48 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	90 Watt	175 Watt
Compute units		36
Floating-point performance		7.1 TFLOPs
Render output units		32
Stream Processors		2304
Texture Units		144
Transistor count		5,700 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
HDMI
Dual-link DVI support
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Dual-slot
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	242 mm, 9.5 inches	241 mm
Recommended system power (PSU)	250 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	1x 8-pin
Width	112 mm, 4.4 inches
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12.0 (12_0)
OpenCL	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	8 GB
Memory bandwidth	224.0 GB/s	256 GB/s
Memory bus width	128 bit	256 bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective	8000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5
Technologies
4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support