NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB vs AMD Radeon VII

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

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 5 month(s) later
Around 10% higher core clock speed: 1545 MHz vs 1400 MHz
289.9x more texture fill rate: 125.3 GTexel/s vs 432.24 GT/s
3.3x lower typical power consumption: 90 Watt vs 300 Watt
Around 19% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 942 vs 792

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	2022 vs 7 February 2019
Core clock speed	1545 MHz vs 1400 MHz
Texture fill rate	125.3 GTexel/s vs 432.24 GT/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	90 Watt vs 300 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	942 vs 792

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon VII

Around 1% higher boost clock speed: 1750 MHz vs 1740 MHz
Around 67% higher pipelines: 3840 vs 2304
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 8 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 16 GB vs 4 GB
Around 14% higher memory clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
Around 27% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 16398 vs 12873
Around 84% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 91678 vs 49885

Specifications (specs)
Boost clock speed	1750 MHz vs 1740 MHz
Pipelines	3840 vs 2304
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 8 nm
Maximum memory size	16 GB vs 4 GB
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	16398 vs 12873
Geekbench - OpenCL	91678 vs 49885

Compare benchmarks

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

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

942

792

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

12873

16398

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

49885

91678

Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB	AMD Radeon VII
PassMark - G2D Mark	942	792
PassMark - G3D Mark	12873	16398
Geekbench - OpenCL	49885	91678
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		206.353
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		4659.199
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		21.606
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		69.256
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		499.927
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		11724
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3360
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		11724
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3360
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		2304

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB	AMD Radeon VII
Essentials
Architecture	Ampere	GCN 5.1
Code name	GA107	Vega 20
Launch date	2022	7 February 2019
Place in performance rating	88	237
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Design		AMD Radeon 2nd generation Vega
GCN generation		5th Gen
Launch price (MSRP)		$699
Price now		$699.99
Value for money (0-100)		32.74
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1740 MHz	1750 MHz
Core clock speed	1545 MHz	1400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	7 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	125.3 GFLOPS (1:64)	3.46 TFLOPs
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	8.018 TFLOPS (1:1)	27.7 TFLOPs
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	8.018 TFLOPS	13.8 TFLOPs
Pipelines	2304	3840
Pixel fill rate	55.68 GPixel/s	115.26 GP/s
Texture fill rate	125.3 GTexel/s	432.24 GT/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	90 Watt	300 Watt
Compute units		60
Stream Processors		3840
Transistor count		13,230 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
HDMI
DisplayPort count		3
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Dual-slot
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	242 mm, 9.5 inches	305 mm
Recommended system power (PSU)	250 Watt	750 W
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	2x 8-pin
Width	112 mm, 4.4 inches
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12.0
OpenCL	3.0	2.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	16 GB
Memory bandwidth	224.0 GB/s	1024 GB/s
Memory bus width	128 bit	4096 Bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective	2000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	HBM2
High bandwidth memory (HBM)
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
FreeSync
PowerTune
TressFX
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
VR Ready
ZeroCore