NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 vs AMD Radeon Instinct MI50

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 and AMD Radeon Instinct MI50 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D 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 3090

AMD Radeon Instinct MI50

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 9 month(s) later
Around 16% higher core clock speed: 1395 MHz vs 1200 MHz

Launch date	1 Sep 2020 vs 18 November 2018
Core clock speed	1395 MHz vs 1200 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Instinct MI50

Around 3% higher boost clock speed: 1746 MHz vs 1695 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 8 nm
Around 17% lower typical power consumption: 300 Watt vs 350 Watt
Around 64% higher memory clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 1219 MHz (19.5 Gbps effective)

Boost clock speed	1746 MHz vs 1695 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 8 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	300 Watt vs 350 Watt
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz vs 1219 MHz (19.5 Gbps effective)

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090
GPU 2: AMD Radeon Instinct MI50

Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090	AMD Radeon Instinct MI50
PassMark - G3D Mark	26668
PassMark - G2D Mark	1060
Geekbench - OpenCL	191142
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	690.619
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	7585.258
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	62.614
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	209.424
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	2441.384
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	33398
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3713
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3354
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	33398
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3713
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3354
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	5118

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090	AMD Radeon Instinct MI50
Essentials
Architecture	Ampere	GCN 5.1
Code name	GA102	Vega 20
Launch date	1 Sep 2020	18 November 2018
Launch price (MSRP)	$1499
Place in performance rating	46	not rated
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1695 MHz	1746 MHz
Core clock speed	1395 MHz	1200 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	7 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	556.0 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	35.58 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	35.58 TFLOPS
Pipelines	10496
Pixel fill rate	189.8 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	556.0 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	350 Watt	300 Watt
Transistor count	28300 million	13,230 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Height	138 mm (5.4 inches)
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x16
Length	313 mm (12.3 inches)	267 mm
Recommended system power (PSU)	750 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1x 12-pin	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Width	Triple-slot
API support
DirectX	12.2	12.0
OpenCL	2.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.5
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	24 GB
Memory bandwidth	936.2 GB/s
Memory bus width	384 bit
Memory clock speed	1219 MHz (19.5 Gbps effective)	2000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6X