NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8GB vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 7

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8GB and AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 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 - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, Geekbench - OpenCL.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8GB

AMD Radeon RX Vega 7

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8GB

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 11 month(s) later
Around 11% higher boost clock speed: 1777 MHz vs 1600 MHz
5.7x more pipelines: 2560 vs 448

Launch date	4 Jan 2022 vs 7 Jan 2020
Boost clock speed	1777 MHz vs 1600 MHz
Pipelines	2560 vs 448

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 7

A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 8 nm

Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 8 nm

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8GB
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX Vega 7

Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8GB	AMD Radeon RX Vega 7
PassMark - G2D Mark	918
PassMark - G3D Mark	12598
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		1069
Geekbench - OpenCL		11203

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8GB	AMD Radeon RX Vega 7
Essentials
Architecture	Ampere	Vega
Code name	GA106	Vega Raven Ridge
Launch date	4 Jan 2022	7 Jan 2020
Place in performance rating	52	1317
Type		Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1777 MHz	1600 MHz
Core clock speed	1552 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	7 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	142.2 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	9.098 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	9.098 TFLOPS
Pipelines	2560	448
Pixel fill rate	56.86 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	142.2 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	130 Watt
Transistor count	12000 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Dual-slot
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8
Length	242 mm, 9.5 inches
Recommended system power (PSU)	300 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin
Width	112 mm, 4.4 inches
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12.1
OpenCL	3.0
OpenGL	4.6
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB
Memory bandwidth	224.0 GB/s
Memory bus width	128 bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
Memory type	GDDR6