NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM vs AMD Radeon Pro VII

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM and AMD Radeon Pro VII 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, Geekbench - OpenCL, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 7 month(s) later
  • Around 8% higher core clock speed: 1515 MHz vs 1400 MHz
  • Around 3% higher boost clock speed: 1755 MHz vs 1700 MHz
  • Around 92% lower typical power consumption: 130 Watt vs 250 Watt
  • Around 75% higher memory clock speed: 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective vs 1000 MHz (2 Gbps effective)
Launch date 4 Jan 2022 vs 13 May 2020
Core clock speed 1515 MHz vs 1400 MHz
Boost clock speed 1755 MHz vs 1700 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 130 Watt vs 250 Watt
Memory clock speed 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective vs 1000 MHz (2 Gbps effective)

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro VII

  • 3.2x more texture fill rate: 408 GTexel/s vs 126.4 GTexel/s
  • 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
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 16 GB vs 8 GB
  • Around 48% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 89340 vs 60541
Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate 408 GTexel/s vs 126.4 GTexel/s
Pipelines 3840 vs 2304
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm vs 8 nm
Maximum memory size 16 GB vs 8 GB
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 89340 vs 60541

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM
GPU 2: AMD Radeon Pro VII

Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
60541
89340
Name NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM AMD Radeon Pro VII
PassMark - G2D Mark 954
PassMark - G3D Mark 11971
Geekbench - OpenCL 60541 89340
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 6262
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 207.741
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 2522.737
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 19.08
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 87.152
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 806.848

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM AMD Radeon Pro VII

Essentials

Architecture Ampere GCN 5.1
Code name GA106 Vega 20
Launch date 4 Jan 2022 13 May 2020
Place in performance rating 197 198
Launch price (MSRP) $1899
Type Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1755 MHz 1700 MHz
Core clock speed 1515 MHz 1400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 8 nm 7 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 126.4 GFLOPS (1:64) 6.528 TFLOPS (1:2)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 8.087 TFLOPS (1:1) 26.11 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 8.087 TFLOPS 13.06 TFLOPS
Pipelines 2304 3840
Pixel fill rate 56.16 GPixel/s 108.8 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 126.4 GTexel/s 408 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 130 Watt 250 Watt
Transistor count 12000 million 13230 million
Compute units 60

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a 6x mini-DisplayPort

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor Dual-slot Dual-slot
Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 4.0 x16
Length 242 mm, 9.5 inches 305 mm (12 inches)
Recommended system power (PSU) 300 Watt 600 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 1x 8-pin 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Width 112 mm, 4.4 inches 111 mm (4.4 inches)

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12.1
OpenCL 3.0 2.1
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Shader Model 6.7 6.4
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 8 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 1000 MHz (2 Gbps effective)
Memory type GDDR6 HBM2
High bandwidth memory (HBM)