NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q and AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP 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 3050 Max-Q

AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 6 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 8 nm vs 14 nm
4.3x lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 150 Watt

Launch date	11 May 2021 vs 15 October 2018
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm vs 14 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt vs 150 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP

Around 64% higher core clock speed: 1168 MHz vs 712 MHz
Around 21% higher boost clock speed: 1284 MHz vs 1057 MHz
5.1x more memory clock speed: 7000 MHz vs 1375 MHz, 11 Gbps effective

Core clock speed	1168 MHz vs 712 MHz
Boost clock speed	1284 MHz vs 1057 MHz
Memory clock speed	7000 MHz vs 1375 MHz, 11 Gbps effective

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP

Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q	AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP
PassMark - G3D Mark		7657
PassMark - G2D Mark		676
Geekbench - OpenCL		34598
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		122.268
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		1890.261
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		10.121
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		117.008
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		625.621
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		9258
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3709
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3351
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		9258
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3709
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3351
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		849

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q	AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP
Essentials
Architecture	Ampere	GCN 4.0
Code name	GA107	Polaris 20
Launch date	11 May 2021	15 October 2018
Place in performance rating	not rated	358
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1057 MHz	1284 MHz
Core clock speed	712 MHz	1168 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	14 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	67.65 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	4.329 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	4.329 TFLOPS
Pipelines	2048
Pixel fill rate	33.82 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	67.65 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt	150 Watt
Transistor count		5,700 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	Portable Device Dependent	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	IGP
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x 8-pin
Length		241 mm
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
Memory bandwidth	176.0 GB/s
Memory bus width	128 bit
Memory clock speed	1375 MHz, 11 Gbps effective	7000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6